The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... Soon after he went to Oxford , he discovered , it is said , an inclination for pupils . Whether he ever commenced tutor is not known . None has hitherto boasted to have received his academical instruction from the author of the Night ...
... Soon after he went to Oxford , he discovered , it is said , an inclination for pupils . Whether he ever commenced tutor is not known . None has hitherto boasted to have received his academical instruction from the author of the Night ...
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... soon see that one of his earliest pro- ductions was more serious than what comes from the generality of unfledged poets . " Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , ' presented , with a copy of ...
... soon see that one of his earliest pro- ductions was more serious than what comes from the generality of unfledged poets . " Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , ' presented , with a copy of ...
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... soon after the peace . The vice - chancellor's impri- matur , for it was printed at Oxford , is dated May the 19th , 1713. From the exordium Young appears to have spent some time on the composition of it . While other bards ' with ...
... soon after the peace . The vice - chancellor's impri- matur , for it was printed at Oxford , is dated May the 19th , 1713. From the exordium Young appears to have spent some time on the composition of it . While other bards ' with ...
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... soon called away from this lower world , to a place where human praise or human flat- tery , even less general than this , are of little conse- quence . If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth , he should not ...
... soon called away from this lower world , to a place where human praise or human flat- tery , even less general than this , are of little conse- quence . If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth , he should not ...
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... soon after the event which Pope mentions , Young published a poem on the queen's death , and his majesty's accession to the throne . It is inscribed to Addison , then secretary to the lords justices . Whatever were the obliga- tions ...
... soon after the event which Pope mentions , Young published a poem on the queen's death , and his majesty's accession to the throne . It is inscribed to Addison , then secretary to the lords justices . Whatever were the obliga- tions ...
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ambition angels Anne Wharton art thou beam beneath bids bleeds bless'd bliss blood divine boundless Busiris call'd dark dead death Deity divine Dorset Downs dread dreams Duke of Wharton dust e'en earth Edward Young endless eternal fair fame fate fear fire flame folly fond fool friendship future genius give glorious glory grave grief guilt happiness heart Heaven hope hour human illustrious infidel labour life's light live Lorenzo Lyric Poetry man's mankind mortal Muse Narcissa Nature Nature's ne'er Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er pain passions peace Philander Pindaric pleasure poem poet poetry praise pride proud Reason Reason sleeps rich rise sacred says scene sense shade shines sigh skies smile song soul immortal stars strange thee theme thine throne tomb triumph truth virtue Virtue's wanted wing wing wisdom wise wish wretched Young
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Página 74 - And that through every stage ; when young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 63 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man...
Página 87 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 137 - Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.
Página 64 - 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 66 - Here pinions all his wishes : wing'd by heaven To fly at infinite, and reach it there, Where seraphs gather immortality, On life's fair tree, fast by the throne of God.
Página 65 - This is the desert, this the solitude : How populous, how vital, is the grave! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed?
Página 11 - It tells her, that his only title to the great honour he now does himself is the obligation which he formerly received from her royal indulgence. 'Of this obligation nothing is now known, unless he alluded to her being his godmother. He is said indeed to have been engaged at a settled stipend as a writer for the court. In Swift's Rhapsody on Poetry...
Página 66 - Where time, and pain, and chance, and death, expire! 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, raptured, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 61 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.