| Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1717 - 580 Seiten
...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 - 1744 - 496 Seiten
...requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd 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,...our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs, which age defcries. The fouPs dark cottage, batter'd, and decayM, Lets-in new light, thro' chinks that time has... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 276 Seiten
...write, The fubject made us able to indite : The foul, with nobler refolutions deckt, The body ftooping, does herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite...fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefV, which age defcries. * See, in " Duke's Poems,"... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 348 Seiten
...praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er : So, calm are we, when puflions are no more J For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of attention from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs, which age defcries. * See, in " Duke's Poems,"... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 Seiten
...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 be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 Seiten
...nobler refolutions deckt, The body {looping does herfelf erect. No mortal parts are requifite to raifc Her that, unbody'd, can her maker praife. The feas...fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs which age defcric*. The foul's dark cottage,... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 Seiten
...unbodied, can her Maker praise. 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... | |
| Select poetry - 1825 - 182 Seiten
...better part. WALLER. cxxxr. THE seas are quiet when the winds are 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... | |
| 1828 - 198 Seiten
...CAROLINE no YOUTH AND AGE. 1 The seas are quiet when the winds are 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. 2 Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
| 1841 - 300 Seiten
...Edwards. THE TRANQUIL MIND. The seas are quiet, when the winds are 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... | |
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