 My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task;...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 47por James Boswell - 1820Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in th' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. О t the poor have cried, Crcsar hath wept ; Ambition...ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. V on wiug'd with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and when... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...light, Л blaze of glory that forbids the sight. 0 teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd, And »earch he made the Flower-de-luce so fruid, Though strongly hedg'd of bloody Lion's paw hart promised never to forsake ! My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires, My manhood, long... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 páginas
...unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe thee, thus conceal'd, And search no farther than thyself re veal'd ; But her alone for my director take, Whom thou hast promised never to forsake !" We find,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. 0 teach me to believe thee thus concealM, ot, til wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. 0 ! teach me to believe thee thus conceal' d, And search no farther than thyself reveal'd ; But...My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow'd lalse lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was... | |
 | father Rowland (fict.name.) - 1852 - 190 páginas
...unerring guide. Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight : 0 teach me to believe thee, thus conceal'd, And search no farther than thyself reveal 'd Bui Her alone- for tmj director lake. Whom thou hast promised never to forsake." DKTDM. *'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in th' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. 0 teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd, And search no farther than thyself revcal'd ; But her alone for ray director take, Whom thou hast promised never to forsake ! My thoughtless... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 526 páginas
...of Fontaine." — Essay on Pope,\o\. ii. p. 5. Dryden' s conversion to the Church of Runic, p. 307. My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires ; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights, and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 páginas
...the sight, Oh, teach me to believe thee thus concealed, And search no farther than thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom thou hast...promised never to forsake ! My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires ; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followedfalse lights; and when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 472 páginas
...guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. 0 ! teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd, And search...desires ; My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow' d false lights ; and when their glimpse was gone. My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.... | |
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