The British Poets, Volumen1Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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Página iii
... ambition , 171 , & c . Avarice , 175 ; pleasure , 176. A digression on the grandeur of the passions , 177 , & c . Immortality alone renders our present state intelligible , 178. An objection from the stoics ' disbelief of immortality ...
... ambition , 171 , & c . Avarice , 175 ; pleasure , 176. A digression on the grandeur of the passions , 177 , & c . Immortality alone renders our present state intelligible , 178. An objection from the stoics ' disbelief of immortality ...
Página xviii
... ambition , and jealousy , and hate , and cru- elty , in their naked and uncontrolled forms ; the mutual recriminations of the wretched accom- plices in guilt , the shameless avowal of the most detestable designs , or the unnatural ...
... ambition , and jealousy , and hate , and cru- elty , in their naked and uncontrolled forms ; the mutual recriminations of the wretched accom- plices in guilt , the shameless avowal of the most detestable designs , or the unnatural ...
Página xx
... ambition was to shine in the House as an orator , he found he had almost forgotten his Latin , and that it was ne- cessary with his present views to recover it . He therefore peared also that the Duke had given him a bond XX LIFE OF YOUNG .
... ambition was to shine in the House as an orator , he found he had almost forgotten his Latin , and that it was ne- cessary with his present views to recover it . He therefore peared also that the Duke had given him a bond XX LIFE OF YOUNG .
Página xxxv
... ambitious shame , and criminal repentance ; repentance for omission of sins , that black inver- sion of the day's duty ? Has not sin its command- ments , error its creed , hypocrisy its saints , pro- faneness its confessor , and ...
... ambitious shame , and criminal repentance ; repentance for omission of sins , that black inver- sion of the day's duty ? Has not sin its command- ments , error its creed , hypocrisy its saints , pro- faneness its confessor , and ...
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... ambition flush'd Thy glowing cheek ! Ambition truly great , Of virtuous praise . Death's subtle seed within , ( Sly , treach'rous miner ! ) working in the dark , Smil'd at thy well - concerted scheme , and beckon'd The worm to riot on ...
... ambition flush'd Thy glowing cheek ! Ambition truly great , Of virtuous praise . Death's subtle seed within , ( Sly , treach'rous miner ! ) working in the dark , Smil'd at thy well - concerted scheme , and beckon'd The worm to riot on ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ambition angels Anne Wharton archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless Busiris charms creation dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heaven Herbert Croft hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passion peace Philander pleasure poem praise pride proud reason rise sacred says scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars strange thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars Young
Pasajes populares
Página 32 - 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 278 - And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals, and immortals, seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone, thy waist ; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form ; and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train.
Página 62 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Página 23 - Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain, It makes us wander ; wander earth around To fly that tyrant, thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
Página xiv - Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace, Where Pope will never show his face, Where Y must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Página 17 - 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 266 - Heav'n opens in their bosoms : But, how rare, Ah me ! that magnanimity, how rare ! What hero, like the man who stands himself; Who dares to meet his naked heart alone...
Página 5 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Página lix - Young should turn away a clergyman's widow, who lived with him, and who, having acquired great influence over the father, was saucy to the son. Dr. Johnson said, she could not conceal her resentment at him, for saying to Young, that "an old man should not resign himself to the management of any body.
Página 309 - Yet grant it true ; new difficulties rise ; I'm still quite out at sea ; nor see the shore. Whence earth and these bright orbs ? Eternal too ? Grant matter was eternal ; still these orbs Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design, implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow, And nothing greater yet allowed than man.