 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...150 Thrown into tumillt, rapttir'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure? Ito'erwhelmsmyselfi 155 How was my heart incrusted by the world ! 0 how self... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...150 Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? it o'erwhelms myself; 155 How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...may be said in the language of Dr. Young, with more truth than poetry, that he VOL. IV. G " Resembled ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fly." An imagination so active, and governed by a sensibility as ardent, delighted to hold a dangerous career.... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself j How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself; How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
..."^"^ Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself - r How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself} How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd... | |
 | John Fletcher - Salvation - 1804 - 248 pages
...Thrown, into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten, or, indulge, Resembles Ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. ' and is equally stabbed by the reproof of u friend, and the sneer of a foe.. ..The spirit of independence,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At ought this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterM... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! () how self-fetter'd... | |
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... the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this... 
