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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... pride survey'd ; Thy word the mighty labour could confound , And leave the mass to moulder with the ground . From thee all human actions take their springs , The rise of empires , and the fall of kings . See the vast theatre of time ...
... pride survey'd ; Thy word the mighty labour could confound , And leave the mass to moulder with the ground . From thee all human actions take their springs , The rise of empires , and the fall of kings . See the vast theatre of time ...
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... pride , And view thy happiness and choice allied ; See Virtue from herself her bliss derive , A bliss , beyond the pow'r of thrones to give ; See Vice , of empire and of wealth possess'd , Pine at the heart , and feel herself unbless'd ...
... pride , And view thy happiness and choice allied ; See Virtue from herself her bliss derive , A bliss , beyond the pow'r of thrones to give ; See Vice , of empire and of wealth possess'd , Pine at the heart , and feel herself unbless'd ...
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... pride would lead him to attempt the sky ; To angels make the pigmy's folly known , And draw ev'n pity from th ' eternal throne . Yet while on Earth triumphant vice prevails , Celestial Justice balances her scales . With eye unbiass'd ...
... pride would lead him to attempt the sky ; To angels make the pigmy's folly known , And draw ev'n pity from th ' eternal throne . Yet while on Earth triumphant vice prevails , Celestial Justice balances her scales . With eye unbiass'd ...
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... pride ! impiety ! What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim ...
... pride ! impiety ! What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim ...
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... pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is is right . Pope . THE PHILOSOPHY THAT STOPS AT SECONDARY CAUSES REPROVED . HAPPY the man , who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that checker life ! Resolving ...
... pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is is right . Pope . THE PHILOSOPHY THAT STOPS AT SECONDARY CAUSES REPROVED . HAPPY the man , who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that checker life ! Resolving ...
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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.