The Complete Poetical Works of Edward Young: With Life ; Eight Steel EngravingsGall & Inglis, 1866 - 502 páginas |
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... lives in the many excellent directions he has left us both how to live and how to die . " Long before this event , Edward Young , the younger , had been placed upon the foundation at Winchester school , where he remained until after his ...
... lives in the many excellent directions he has left us both how to live and how to die . " Long before this event , Edward Young , the younger , had been placed upon the foundation at Winchester school , where he remained until after his ...
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... live in the country , -was no small shakes in satire . He was himself the prey of his own epigrammatic genius , that would never let him rest in ordinary speech , but kept painting every line as it came up , often at the wrong end ; so ...
... live in the country , -was no small shakes in satire . He was himself the prey of his own epigrammatic genius , that would never let him rest in ordinary speech , but kept painting every line as it came up , often at the wrong end ; so ...
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... live with him . She was advanced in years , and was always treated by Young " with the politeness and respect due to a gentlewoman . " But Young treated every person with the same politeness and respect . His domestics shared his ...
... live with him . She was advanced in years , and was always treated by Young " with the politeness and respect due to a gentlewoman . " But Young treated every person with the same politeness and respect . His domestics shared his ...
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... live with the intelligence of heaven , whilst his intellect is still only that of earth . But with that effort every mind , conscious of its own immortal destinies , must to some extent sympathise ; and the daring antitheses of Young ...
... live with the intelligence of heaven , whilst his intellect is still only that of earth . But with that effort every mind , conscious of its own immortal destinies , must to some extent sympathise ; and the daring antitheses of Young ...
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... live they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceiv'd ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heavenly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . This is the desert , this the solitude : How populous , how vital , is ...
... live they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceiv'd ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heavenly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . This is the desert , this the solitude : How populous , how vital , is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ambition angels art thou awful beams beneath bids bless blest bliss boast book of Job breast Britain charms Codrus crown dare dark death deep divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG eternal ev'ry fair fame fate fear fire flame fool frown genius give glorious glory gods grace grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heaven hour human illustrious immortal labour leviathan life's light lord Lorenzo man's mankind mighty mind mortal muse nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers nymphs o'er pain passion peace Pindar pleasure praise pride proud rage rapture reason renown rise sacred satire scene seas sense shine sight skies smile song soul spleen stars sting storm sublime sweet tempest thee theme thine thought throne thunder trembling triumph truth twill virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wretched ye stars
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Página 1 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Página 8 - All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own their future selves applaud; How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails; That lodged in Fate's to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they postpone.
Página 8 - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own; their future selves...
Página 1 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust : Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Página 297 - Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
Página 4 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 277 - I'm nearer death in this verse than the last : What then is to be done ? be wise with speed : A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Página 17 - Where shall I find Him ? Angels ! tell me where. You know him ; He is near you : point him out : Shall I see glories beaming from his brow ? Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers...
Página 149 - Attend my song, and thou shalt know them all ; And know thyself; and know thyself to be (Strange truth !) the most abstemious man alive.
Página 56 - As wise as Socrates, might justly stand The definition of a modern fool. A Christian is the highest style of man : And is there, who the blessed cross wipes off...