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... pleasure , hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and devote old age To sports , which only childhood could excuse . There they are happiest , who dissemble best Their weariness ; and they the ...
... pleasure , hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and devote old age To sports , which only childhood could excuse . There they are happiest , who dissemble best Their weariness ; and they the ...
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... pleasures ; buys the boy a name , That sits a stigma on his father's house , And cleaves through life inseparably close To him that wears it . What can after - games Of riper joys , and commerce with the world , The lewd vain world ...
... pleasures ; buys the boy a name , That sits a stigma on his father's house , And cleaves through life inseparably close To him that wears it . What can after - games Of riper joys , and commerce with the world , The lewd vain world ...
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... pleasure and with ease ; So I , designing other themes , and called To adorn the Sofa with eulogium due , To tell its slumbers , and to paint its dreams , Have rambled wide . In country , city , seat Of academic fame ( howe'er deserved ) ...
... pleasure and with ease ; So I , designing other themes , and called To adorn the Sofa with eulogium due , To tell its slumbers , and to paint its dreams , Have rambled wide . In country , city , seat Of academic fame ( howe'er deserved ) ...
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... pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wandering eyes , still leaning on the arm Of novelty , her fickle frail support ; For thou art meek and constant , hating change , And finding in the calm of truth ...
... pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wandering eyes , still leaning on the arm Of novelty , her fickle frail support ; For thou art meek and constant , hating change , And finding in the calm of truth ...
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... pleasures to anothers pain ; That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless nature , dumb , but yet endued With eloquence , that agonies inspire , Of silent tears and heart - distending sighs ? Vain tears , alas , and sighs ...
... pleasures to anothers pain ; That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless nature , dumb , but yet endued With eloquence , that agonies inspire , Of silent tears and heart - distending sighs ? Vain tears , alas , and sighs ...
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Page 42 - Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him ,the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Page 44 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 240 - THAT those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine, — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, "Grieve not, my child; chase all thy fears away!
Page 241 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 88 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ; — He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Page 144 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Page 90 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen all tranquillity and smiles.
Page 151 - I view the embattled tower Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof...
Page 176 - And Saba's spicy groves, pay tribute there. Praise is in all her gates : upon her walls, And in her streets, and in her spacious courts, Is heard salvation. Eastern Java there Kneels with the native of the farthest west, And .(Ethiopia spreads abroad the hand And worships. Her report has travell'd forth Into all lands.
Page 93 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...