 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 pages
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is Folly's creed. How solid all. where change shall be no more ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight...can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of cluy remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free. From real life but little more remote Is he,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...where its capacity and enjoyments bear a nearer proportion to each other, end that this is but Our bud of being, the dim dawn The twilight of our day,...clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free. But we pervert this exalted propensity where we suffer it to make us despise the present situation,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...where its capacity and enjoyments bear a nearer proportion to each other, -and that" this is but OiTr bud of being, the dim dawn The twilight of our day, the vestibule. Life's theatre as yet is stun, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...all beyond Is substance; the reverse is folly's creed: How solid all, where change shall be no morel This is. the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our dpy, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is 'shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed; How solid all, where change shall be no more ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : if/e's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross... | |
 | 1816 - 562 pages
...Eternity from human thought, Л no make it quite subservient to our pride, When mortal Jife is but the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day— its vestibule ; Yet man, fool man, tho' wing'd by Heaven, Here pinions all his wishes, here — Burying... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...own, Their nest so deeply down'd, and built so high! Too low they build who build beneath the stars. THIS is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight...existence, free,. From real life, but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, Yet nsan, fool man ! here buries all his thoughts, Inters celestial... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed How solid all, where change shall be no more ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight...existence free From real life ; but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be till... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all, where change shall be no more ! And make us embryos of existence free From real life ; but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be till... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all, where change shall be no more ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight...existence free. From real life, but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be, till... | |
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone .can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free. 
