 And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At...  ROOM AT THE TOP OR HOW TO REACH - Page 85by A. CRAIG - 1883Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, 150 Thrown into tumillt, rapttir'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure? Ito'erwhelmsmyselfi 155 How was my heart incrusted by the world ! 0 how self... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...threescore years, 146 To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, 150 Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...may be said in the language of Dr. Young, with more truth than poetry, that he VOL. IV. G " Resembled ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fly." An imagination so active, and governed by a sensibility as ardent, delighted to hold a dangerous career.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...flight of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...in strenuous idleness, — "^"^ Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | John Fletcher - Salvation - 1804 - 248 pages
...iirts, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness ; Thrown, into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten, or, indulge, Resembles Ocean...tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. ' and is equally stabbed by the reproof of u friend, and the sneer of a foe.. ..The spirit of independence,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, "s'1 smother souls immortal in the dust i A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At ought this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
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