Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817 |
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... fate , Could , to display his pow'r , subvert his state ; Bid from his plastic hand , a greater rise , Produce a master , and resign his skies ; Impart his incommunicable flame , The mystic number of th ' Eternal Name ; Then might ...
... fate , Could , to display his pow'r , subvert his state ; Bid from his plastic hand , a greater rise , Produce a master , and resign his skies ; Impart his incommunicable flame , The mystic number of th ' Eternal Name ; Then might ...
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... fate . Nor want his shining images below , In streams that murmur , or in winds that blow ; His spirit broods along the boundless flood , Smiles in the plain , and whispers in the wood : Warms in the genial sun's enliv'ning ray ...
... fate . Nor want his shining images below , In streams that murmur , or in winds that blow ; His spirit broods along the boundless flood , Smiles in the plain , and whispers in the wood : Warms in the genial sun's enliv'ning ray ...
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... fate , And fetter'd Time shall know his latest date ; When earth shall in the mighty blaze expire , Heav'n melt with heat , and worlds dissolve in fire ; The universal system shrink away , And ceasing orbs confess th ' almighty sway ...
... fate , And fetter'd Time shall know his latest date ; When earth shall in the mighty blaze expire , Heav'n melt with heat , and worlds dissolve in fire ; The universal system shrink away , And ceasing orbs confess th ' almighty sway ...
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... fate ; Shock'd at the scene , though sense averts its eye , Nor stops the wondrous process to descry ; Yet juster thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views . The brute the vegetable world surveys , Sees ...
... fate ; Shock'd at the scene , though sense averts its eye , Nor stops the wondrous process to descry ; Yet juster thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views . The brute the vegetable world surveys , Sees ...
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... fate . To ask why prosperous vice so oft succeeds , Why suffers innocence , or virtue bleeds ? Why monsters , nature must with blushes own , By crimes grow powerful , and disgrace a throne ? Why saints and sages , mark'd in every age ...
... fate . To ask why prosperous vice so oft succeeds , Why suffers innocence , or virtue bleeds ? Why monsters , nature must with blushes own , By crimes grow powerful , and disgrace a throne ? Why saints and sages , mark'd in every age ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adore Almighty angels beam behold beneath bids birth bless bless'd bliss boundless breast breath bright brute celestial cloud dark death deep divine doth dread dust earth eternal ev'n ev'ry exalted fair fate fear fire fix'd flame glorious glory grave happy hast heart Heav'n heavenly hope human immortal Justice King light Lord lyre Manichæan mercy mind monsters drink mortal Muse nature Nature's ne'er night nought o'er Omnipotence pain peace poison'd pow'r praise pride rage reason reigns rise rising universe roll round ruling angels sacred sapience SATIRE OF JUVENAL scene seraph shade shalt shine sight silver plumes sing skies smiles Soame Jenyns song soul springs stream sweet tempest thee thine thou thought throne Thy hand toil tongue trembling truth universal store vex'd virtue voice whence wild wings Wisdom wise wretch
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 239 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Seite 41 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 252 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Seite 257 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Seite 3 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Seite 37 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
Seite 258 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Seite 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
Seite 272 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Seite 144 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.