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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... skies ! If one vast void eternal held its place , Whence started time ? or whence expanded space ? What gave the slumb'ring mass to feel a change , Or bid consenting worlds harmonious range ? Could nothing link the universal chain ? No ...
... skies ! If one vast void eternal held its place , Whence started time ? or whence expanded space ? What gave the slumb'ring mass to feel a change , Or bid consenting worlds harmonious range ? Could nothing link the universal chain ? No ...
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... skies ; Profusely wide the boundless blessings flow , Which Heav'n enrich and gladden worlds below ; Which are no less when properly defin'd , Than emanations of th ' Eternal Mind : Hence triumphs truth beyond objection clear , ( Let ...
... skies ; Profusely wide the boundless blessings flow , Which Heav'n enrich and gladden worlds below ; Which are no less when properly defin'd , Than emanations of th ' Eternal Mind : Hence triumphs truth beyond objection clear , ( Let ...
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... skies ; Around wild uproar and confusion hurl'd , Eclipse the heav'ns , and waste the ruin'd world . Two independent causes to admit , Destroys religion , and debases wit ; The first by such an anarchy undone , The last acknowledges its ...
... skies ; Around wild uproar and confusion hurl'd , Eclipse the heav'ns , and waste the ruin'd world . Two independent causes to admit , Destroys religion , and debases wit ; The first by such an anarchy undone , The last acknowledges its ...
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... skies ; Impart his incommunicable flame , The mystic number of th ' Eternal Name ; Then might revolting reason's feeble ray Aspire to question God's all - perfect day . Vain task ! the clay in the directing hand , The reason of its form ...
... skies ; Impart his incommunicable flame , The mystic number of th ' Eternal Name ; Then might revolting reason's feeble ray Aspire to question God's all - perfect day . Vain task ! the clay in the directing hand , The reason of its form ...
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... skies Shall bid the curtain of omniscience rise ; Shall dissipate the mists that veil our sight , And show his creatures - all his ways are right ! Then , when astonish'd Nature feels its fate , And fetter'd Time shall know his latest ...
... skies Shall bid the curtain of omniscience rise ; Shall dissipate the mists that veil our sight , And show his creatures - all his ways are right ! Then , when astonish'd Nature feels its fate , And fetter'd Time shall know his latest ...
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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.