 More mortal than the common births of Fate. Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts...  The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts - Page 10by Edward Young - 1813 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays 195 His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...proud words, and vain! Implicit treason to divine decrees! 200 A bold invasion of the rights of heav'n ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air;... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...emulous, Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root ; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of heav'n ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air. O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...emulous, Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root ; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of heav'n ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air. O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...emulous, Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root ; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...fairest bloom of sublunary bliss. Bliss ! sublunary bliss!—proud words, and vain! Implicit treason to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...emulous, Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...fairest bloom of sublunary bliss. Bliss ! sublunary bliss!—proud words, and vain! Implicit treason to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...great theatre of public action, but, like the subtle power assigned by Young to death, it " Plays its weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet domestic comfort,...and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss." It steals unperceived into the family circle, and intrudes upon our social, shall 1 say our religious,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root: each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...heaven ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air. O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace, What darts of agony had miss'd my heart! Death ! great proprietor... | |
 | Charles Lee Lewes - Actors - 1805 - 240 pages
...speaking of sublunary bliss : — >*' Bliss! sublunary bliss! — ProuJ words, and vain! *' lin])licit treason to divine decree! " A bold invasion of the...! " I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air; " O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! " What darts of agony had miss'd my heart !'" He has often... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrow sphere Of. sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down The...fairest bloom of sublunary bliss. Bliss ! sublunary bliss!—Proud words, and vain ! Implicit treason to divine decree! A bold invasion of the rights of... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...emulous Of Time s enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root ; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet...heaven ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air. O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What darts of agony had miss'd my heart ! Death ! great proprietor... | |
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