| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 páginas
...shoot. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie...moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of the enlightened soul ! Truth, justice and reason, lose all their force and all their lustre when they... | |
| John Fraser - 1890 - 410 páginas
...WALKS AROUND MONTREAL. CHAPTER XXI. FIRST SUMMER MORNING WALK AROUND MONTREAL. " Falsely luxurious, and will not man awake ; and springing from the bed of...the silent hour, to meditation due and sacred song ? When every muse and every blooming pleasure wait without to bless the wildly devious morning walk... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 páginas
...dwells ; Arid from the crowded fold in order drives p/° His flock to taste the verdure of the morn. ' Falsely luxurious, will not man awake, And, springing...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? 70 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion^ losing half •' . ».... | |
| 1891 - 556 páginas
...beneficial and the end of your being. Antoninus. Prevent your day at morning. Ben Jonson. PLEASURE OF. Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise, To lie...fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of the enlighten'd soul ? Wilder'd and tossing thro' distemper'd drenms? Who would in such a gloomy state... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 páginas
...he dwells ; And from the crowded fold in order drives 65 His flock to taste the verdure of the morn. Falsely luxurious, will not man awake, And, springing...enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, Tojnjdjta^io^__due__and^a^eji_^song^ 7° For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...if my trembling pen displays What never yet was sung in mortal lays. THOMSON: Castle of Indolence. Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Fatal extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to fevering vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
| 1896 - 1224 páginas
...sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath. n. TENNYSON — In Memoriam, Pt. LXVIII. Mariner. Pt. VII. The saints will loosing half The fleeting moments of too short a life — ****** Who would in such a gloomy state remain... | |
| Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 páginas
...upon the shingles By the patter of the rain. COATKS KlXXEY. the MORNING PLEASURES. (From "Summer.") fALSELY luxurious, will not man awake, And, springing...sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction... | |
| George Campbell Macaulay - 1907 - 278 páginas
...well-known passage that follows must often have been turned against the author by his friends : — " Falsely luxurious, will not man awake, And springing...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? " The actual entrance of the sun upon the scene is described with epic dignity, and the enthusiastic... | |
| Henry Grey Graham - 1908 - 441 páginas
...v. 137. Thomson's Poems: Life by Murdoch (1802), p. 24. Yet this was the poet who had written : — Falsely luxurious ! Will not man awake, And springing...hour To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there ought in sleep can charm the wise t To lie in dark oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too... | |
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