 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 71. In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. 72. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they hear Of ships,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or. shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore , Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches,...dead : They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...lie; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply^. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Or, shipwrecked,...to some distant shore; Or, in dark churches, walk uniong the dead: They wake wilh horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead : They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead : They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill Apply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches,...dead; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...bulks which little souls but ill supply. zao In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or in dark churches...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. *The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, sas Till from their maintop joyful news they hear Of ships,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 724 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, aud dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriate terms of art should be... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...: Faint sweats all down their mighty members run ; Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply .f In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or shipwrecked,...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes,| Till from their maintop joyful news they hear Of ships, which... | |
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