 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind 1 Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling...? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise ; No cries invoke the mercies of the skies 1 Inquirer, cease ; petitions yet remain, Which Heaven may hear, nor... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...Where then shall Hope tuul Fear their objects flnd t M'ist dull suspense corrupt the stagnant niiiul? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling...fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise; No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Inquirer, «ease; petitions yet remain, Which Heaven may hear, nor... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless nnn, in ignorance sedate; Roll darkling down the torrent...? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise. No cries invoke the mercies of the skies •" — Johnson. "The folk wol wenc (know) that thou for cowardice... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...apply our hearts" to piety : " Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? Shall dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in...sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate ? Shall no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries attempt the mercy of the skies ? 1 From Mr. Langton.—... | |
 | John Barton - Religion - 1984 - 276 pages
...of the second redactor, considering the materials which (if McNeile is correct) he had before him: Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find?...sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? . . . Enquirer, cease, petitions yet remain, 71 Which heav'n may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...away."20 The image or image-cluster contributes to the climax of Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749): "Must helpless Man, in Ignorance sedate, / Roll darkling down the Torrent of his Fate?" (lines 345-6) ." The idea can be found even in light touches, as in Burns's image in "Tarn O'Shanter":... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...to life, are forms of misdirected energy; the religious coda commences with the following question: Where then shall Hope and Fear their Objects find?...sedate, Roll darkling down the Torrent of his fate? [ VHW 343-46] The negative terms of corruption and stagnancy apply to that which is "down"; the proper... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 212 pages
...reimagining it. In The Vanity of Human Wishes this redirection is introduced by the familiar question: Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find?...sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? (YJ 6: 107-8) From the perspective not only of all the evidence but also of the poem's manner of proceeding... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...hissing Infamy proclaims the rest. Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance...fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Inquirer, cease; petitions yet remain. Which Heaven may hear, nor... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...(Dictionary of the English Language) Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance...sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Johnson had been working as a journalist, contributing to many of the magazines of the time, since... | |
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Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate... 
