 And is it in 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, raptured, or alarm'd At aught...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Page 206by Edward Young - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Dearborn - Cemeteries - 1857 - 66 pages
...SAMUEL APPLETON. LOT 411, CEDAR HILL. " Is it in the flight of human years To push eternity from living thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ?...immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in busied idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed At aught this scene can threaten or indulge,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge. Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push...from human thought, And smother souls immortal in t ?' A soul immortal, spending all h< Wasting her strength in strcnuoi ss, Thrown into tumult, raptured... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1860 - 136 pages
...the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death, expire! 145 And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push...fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, 150 Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles... | |
 | L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 pages
...the j ust, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire ! To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm' d, At aught this scene can threaten and indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust 1 A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alirm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft... | |
 | William Edward Baxter - Books and reading - 1860 - 264 pages
...physical indolence. In many respects we would rather see a body inactive and unwilling to labour than "A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness." Sluggishness on the part of the former may be charitably attributed to constitutional weakness or disease.... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and chance, and death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...for the Just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time, and pain, and change, and death expire. And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarmed, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
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