 Want, and incurable disease, (fell pair!) On hopeless multitudes remorseless seize At once, and make a refuge of the grave. How groaning hospitals eject their dead ! What numbers groan for sad admission there ! What numbers, once in Fortune's lap high-fed,...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Page 218by Edward Young - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1750 - 416 pages
...folicit it in vain ! Ye filken Sons of Pleafure ! fince in Pains You rue more modifh Vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your Debauch : Give, and reduce Surfeit's Dominion o'er you ; but fo great Your Impudence, you blufh at what is Right ! Happy ! did Sorrow feize en fuch alone. Not Prudence... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 274 pages
...more, folicit it in vain ! Ye filken fpns of Pleafure ! fmce in pains You rue more modim vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch: give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but fo great Your impudence, you blufh at what is right. Happy ! did Sorrow feize on fuch alone. Not Prudence... | |
 | 1770 - 268 pages
...folicit it in vain ! Ye filken fons of pleafure ! fince in pains You rue more modiQi vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch : give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but, fo great Your impudence, you blufh at what is right! Happy ! did forrow feize on fuch alone. Not prudence... | |
 | Edward Young - 1773 - 354 pages
...folicit it in vain !'. Ye filken fons of Pleafure ! fuice in Pains;' You rue more modifh Vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your Debauch : Give, and reduce Surfeit's Dominion o'er you : But fo great Your Impudence, you blufh at what is RightHappy! did Sorrow feize onfuch alone. Not Prudence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 288 pages
...more, folicit it in vain ! Ye filken fous of pleafure ! fmce in pains You rue more modifh vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch : give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but fo great 265 Your impudence, you blum at what is right. Happy ! did forrow feize onfuch alone. Not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1785 - 568 pages
...folicit it in vain ! Ye filken fons of pleafure ! fince in pains You rue more modifh vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch : give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but, fo great Your Your impudence, you blufh at what is right ! Happy ! did forrowfeize on fuch alone. Not... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 280 pages
...folicit it in vain ! Ye filken fons of pleafure ! fince in pains You rue more modifh vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch : give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but fo great 265 Your impudence, you blufh at what is right, Happy ! did forrow feize on fuch alone. Not... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 470 pages
...of Charity ? z60 To shock us more, solicit il in vain ! Ye silken sons of Pleasure! since in plains You rue more modish visits, visit here, And breathe...and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you. But so great z65 Your impudence, you blush at what is right. Happy ! did sorrow seize on such alone. Nst prudence... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...admission there I What numbers, once in Fortune's lap high-fed, Solicit the cold hand of Charity ! 260 To shock us more, solicit it in vain ! Ye silken sons...reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : But so great 265 Your impudence, you blush at what is right. Happy! did sorrow seize on such alone. Not prudence... | |
 | Edward Young - 1799 - 312 pages
...more, folicit it in vain ! Ye filken Ions of Pieafure ! fince in pain1 You rue more modim vifits, vifit here, And breathe from your debauch : give, and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you. But To great 165 Your impudence, you bluihat what is right. Happy did forrow feizeon fuch alone. Not prudence... | |
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