Heart-merit wanting, mount we ne'er fo high, Our height is but the gibbet of our name. A celebrated wretch when I behold, When I behold a genius bright, and bafe, Of... Dialogues of the Dead with the Living - 第 33 頁Philip Parsons 著 - 1779 - 227 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Edward Young - 1750 - 350 頁
...of our Name. A celebrated Wretch when I behold, When I behold a Genius bright, and bafe, Of tow'ring Talents, and terreftrial Aims ; Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high Sphere, The glorious Fragment of a Soul immortal, With Rubbifh inixt, and glitt'ring in the Duft. Struck... | |
| Edward Young - 1750 - 416 頁
...of our Name. A celebrated Wretch when I behold, When I behold a Genius bright, and bafe, Of tow'ring Talents, and terreftrial Aims ; Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high Sphere, The glorious Fragment of a Soul immortal, With Rubbifh mixt, and glitt'ring in the Duft. Struck... | |
| Edward Young - 1762 - 292 頁
...name. A celebrated wretch, when I behold, When I behold a genius bright, and bafe, Of tow'nng talent:, and terreftrial aims ; Methinks I fee, as thrown from...fphere, The glorious fragments of a foul immortal, With rubbifh mixt, and glitt'ring in the duft. Struck at the fplendid, melancholy fight, At once ccmpajfion... | |
| Edward Young - 1775 - 408 頁
...of our name. A celebrated wretch when I behold, When I behold a genius bright, and bafe, Of tow'ring talents, and terreftrial aims; Methinks I fee, as...fphere, The glorious fragments of a foul immortal, "With rubbifh mix'd, and glitt'ring in the duft. Struck at the fplendid, melancholy fight, At once compaffion... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 288 頁
...; 165 When I behold a genius bright, and bafe, Of towering talents, and terrcftrial aims ; Methinks Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high fphere, The glorious fragments of a foul immortal, With rubbifh mix'd, and glittering in the duft. 270' Struck at the fplendid, melancholy fight, At once companion... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 280 頁
...behold; 265 When I behold a genius bright, and bafe, Of towering talents, and terreftriaJ aims ; Methinks Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high fphere, The glorious fragments of a foul immortal, With rubbifh mix'd, and glittering in the duft. 270 Struck at the fplendid, melancholy fight, At once comfaj/ion... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 頁
...bafc, Of tow'ring talents, and terreft rial aims ; Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high (pherc, The glorious fragments of a foul immortal, With rubbifli mixt, and glittering in the duft. Struck at the fplcndid, melancholy fight, At once compaffion foft, and envy, rife — But wherefore... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 頁
...When I behold a genius bright and bafe, Of tow'ring talents, and terrellrial aims ; Met:. inks I lee, s was the fruit the private Ipirit brought; Occafion'd by great zeal and little rubbifh mix'd, and glittering in the duft. Struck nt the fplendid, melancholy fight, At once compaffion... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 頁
...wretch, when I behold ; When I behold a geniu* bright and bafe. Of towering talents, and terredrial aims ; Methinks I fee, as thrown from her high fphere, The glorious fragment" of a foul immortal, With rubbifh mix'd, and glittering in the dud, Struck at the fplendid,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 頁
...When I behold a genius bright and bafe, Of towering talents, and terrcftrial aims; Mcthinks, I lee, as thrown from her high fphere, The glorious fragments...immortal, With rubbifli mixt, and glittering in the duft. Hearts are proprietors of all applaufe. Right ends, and means, make wifdom : worldly1s but half-witted,... | |
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