 The cypress mine, funereal green ! Yet in this hour of grief and fears, When awful truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown usurps my breast j, Back to the world my thoughts are led ! My feet in folly's lab'rinth tread, And fancy dreams that life is...  The Inheritance - Page 315by Susan Ferrier - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Collection - 1758 - 358 pages
...hour of grief and fears, When aweful Truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown ufurps my breaft ; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in Folly's lab'rynth tread, And fancy dreams that life is bleft. Whom Pleafure's flow'ry wreaths can bind, And... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1759 - 516 pages
...this hour of grief and fears, When aweful Truth unveil'd appears, Some power unknown ufurps my bread; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in...Folly's lab'rinth tread, And Fancy dreams that life as bleft. How weak an Emprefs is -the Mind, Whom Pleafure's flow'ry wreaths can biafl. And captive... | |
 | 1764 - 524 pages
...this hour of enef an(J fears, When aweful Truth unveil'd appears. Some power unknown ufurps my bread ; Back to the world my thoughts are led! My feet in Folly's lab'rinth tread, And fancy dic-ims that life is bled. How weak an Empref, is the Mind, Whom Pleafure's flow'ry wreaths can bind,... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 pages
...hour of grief and fears, When aweful Truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown ufurps my breaft j Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in Folly's lab'rynth tread, And fancy dreams that life is bleft. How weak an emprefs is the mind, Whom Pleafure's... | |
 | 1795 - 532 pages
...hour of grief and fears, When awful truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown usurps my breast j, Back to the world my thoughts are led ! My feet in...lab'rinth tread, And fancy dreams that life is blest. How weak an empress is the mind, "Whom pleasure's flow'ry wreaths can ЬГцЛ, And captive to her... | |
 | 1806 - 312 pages
...in this hour of grief and fears, 'When awful .'/ruth unveil'd appears, Some power unknown usurps my breast ; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in folly's labyrinth tread, And Fancy dreams that life is blest. How weak an empress is the mind, Whom Pleasure's... | |
 | 1808 - 506 pages
...Yet in this hour of grief and fears, When awful truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown usurps my breast; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in folly's lab'rynth tread, And fancy dreams that life is blest. How weak an empress is the mind, Which pleasure's... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 380 pages
..."Even in this hour of grief and fears, When awful Truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown usurps my breast; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My...thought her lover was now Earl of Rossville— able and—could she doubt—willing to restore her to all she had lost ? She would have renounced all for... | |
 | 1836 - 440 pages
...Even in this hour of grief and fears, "When awful Truth unveil'd appears, Some pow'r unknown usurps my breast ; Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in folly's lab rinth tread, And fancy dreams that life is blest." Again Gertrude's heart bounded, as she thought... | |
 | 1838 - 500 pages
...Yet in this hour of grief and fears, When awful truth unveil'd appears, Some power unknown usurps my breast: Back to the world my thoughts are led, My feet in follV's lab'rinth tread ; And fancy dreams that life is blest. How weak an empress is the mind, Whom... | |
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