 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 Seiten
...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,...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? it o'erwhelms myself; 155 How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how... | |
 | 1810 - 702 Seiten
...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 - 412 Seiten
...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,...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself j How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 Seiten
...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,...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself} How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 402 Seiten
...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,...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself - r How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 Seiten
...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,...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself; How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 248 Seiten
...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 - 1805 - 238 Seiten
...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...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! () how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...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...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterM... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 Seiten
...spending atl 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 huri'd " To waft a Feather, or to drown a Fly. " Beware what earth calls Happiness : beware " All joys,... | |
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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... 
