 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...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Side 206af Edward Young - 1802Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Young - 1756 - 430 sider
...in the puft ? A Soul immortal, fpending alJ her Fires, Wafting her Strength in ftrenuous Idlenefs, Thrown into. Tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this Scene can threaten, or indulge, Refembles Ocean into Tempeft wrought, To waft a Feather, or to drown a Fly. Where falls this Cenfure... | |
 | David Simpson - 1780 - 628 sider
...in the Duft ? A Soul immortal, fpenciing all her Fires, Wafting her Strength in" ftrenuous Idleuefs, Thrown into Tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd At aught this Scene can threaten, ,or indulge, Refembles Ocean into Ternpeft wrought, . To waft a Feather, or to drown a Fly. HYMN HYMN CCCXCII. COME... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 sider
...Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years, 146 To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls...fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, 150 Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 248 sider
...vice, which feeds on the praises it slyly procures, lives by the applause it has meanly courted^ * And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And bury souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal spending all her iirts, Wasting her strength in strenuous... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 238 sider
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more! Where Time, and Pain,and Chance, and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 sider
...the just! t Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire 1 And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, "s'1 smother souls immortal in the dust i A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 sider
...reach it there, 'c Where Seraphs gather immortality " On Life's fair tree, fast by the throne of God. " And is it in the flight of threescore years " To push Eternity from human thought, u And smother Souls immortal in the dust ? " A Soul immortal, spending atl her fires, ** Wasting her... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 sider
...reach it there, u Where Seraphs gather immortality " On Life's fair tree, fast by the throne of God. " And is it in the flight of threescore years " To push Eternity from human thought, u And smother Souls immortal in the dust ? ** A Soul immortal, spending all her fires, « Wasting her... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1809 - 238 sider
...the just I Where momentary ages are no- more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire! ' And is it in the flight of threescore years To push...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At ought this, scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrougfit, , TQ waft a feather,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...for the Just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and p.un, and chance, and death expire ! - X sending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or... | |
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