 ... 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, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge,...  Essay on Language, and Other Essays and Addresses - Page 367by Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, 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. Where falls this censure ? it o'erwhelms myself; 155 How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pages
...said in the language of Dr. Young, with more truth than poetry, that he VOL. IV. G " Resembled ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fly." An imagination so active, and governed by a sensibility as ardent, delighted to hold a dangerous career.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 402 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, 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. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself - r How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 412 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, 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. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself j How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, 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. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself; How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, 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. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself} How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 248 pages
...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, or to drown a fly. ' and is equally stabbed by the reproof of u friend, and the sneer of a foe.. ..The spirit of independence,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...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, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterM... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 238 pages
...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, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! () how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...Thrown into tumult, raptur'd 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. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself: How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'... | |
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