 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1717 - 580 páginas
...can her Maker fraife. The The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give 0Vr; So calm are we, when Taj/ions are no more : For then we know how vain it was to boeft Of fleeting Things, fo certain to lie lojt. Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 páginas
...her felf erect: No mortal Parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give o'er; So calm are we, when Paflions are no more: For then we know how vain it was te boaft Of fleeting Things, Co certain to be... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1744 - 496 páginas
...can her MAK ER praife. The fens are quiet, when the winds give-o'er: So> calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 páginas
...ftone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own ; IMITATIONS. VER. 126. Admire new tight t £sV.] The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Waller: NOTES. VER. 1 1 9. "Thus revive, £sV.] The Goddefs applauds the pra&ice of tacking... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 388 páginas
...than a Fage tau be afforded a living one ? P. *. IMITATIONS. VER. 126. Admire new light , &c.~\ «' The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, " Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made." Waller. But fpread, my ions, your glory thin or thick, On paffive paper, or on folid brick.... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1768 - 366 páginas
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbony'd can her MA KER praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er. So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to beaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 páginas
...diftant height above, Nor depths below, fhall part me from thy love, THE STATE OF OLD AGE. TH E feas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when paffions rage no more ; Clouds of affection from our younger eyes, Conceals that emptinefs which time... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 páginas
...flelh is humbled, Weftminfter's bold race Shrink, and confefs the Genius of the place : IMITATIONS. " The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. " Lets in new light, through chinks that time has " made. WALLER. Ver. 142. Dropping -with infant's tloed, &c.] '' Firft Moloch, horrid King, befmcar'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 páginas
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requif:te to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er: So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boafl Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | 1789 - 276 páginas
...I hope have R teeeived received fome advantage by it, if what Waller fays be true, thai The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Then furely ficknefs, contributing no lefs than old age to the fhating down this fcaffolding... | |
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.... 
