 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...myself: How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter' d was my grovelling soul, How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken thought,... | |
 | Edward Young, Thomas Park - 1808 - 336 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? it o'erwhehus myself. How was my heart intruded by the world ! O how self-fetter'd was my groveling soul... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 頁
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more I Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Demth expire 1 At aught this scene can threaten or indulge. Resembles...falls this censure? it o'erwhelms myself. How was iny heart instructed by the. world! O Siow s*lf-fetter'd was my groveling soul ! How, like a worm,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 頁
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Hesembles grandeur to maintain, l.ead stern Depopulation, in her train, And over fields, * centre? I to'erwhelms myself. How was my heart, entrusted by the world ! O bow self-futter'd was my... | |
 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 頁
...threescore years Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alunn'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhehus myself. How was my heart incrnsted by the world ! f O now self-fetter'd was my grov'ling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure ? U o'crwhelma myself; How was my heart incnisted by the world ! О how self-fetter'd was my grovelling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 頁
...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resemhles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or...falls this censure • It o'erwhelms myself; How was mg heart incrusted hy the world ! O how self-ietter'd was my grovelling soul! How, like a worm, was... | |
 | John Monk (of Chester, England.) - 1810 - 118 頁
...ransack the city and country for talent; to answer it. To have done this, in our opinion, would "Resemble ocean into tempest wrought, " To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." < IB justice, therefore, to the parti, we are compelled to take upon ourselves the awful responsihility,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 302 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness,. Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...censure ? It o'erwhelms myself ; How was my heart encrusted by the world ! O how self-fetfer'd was my grov'ling soul ! How, like a worm, was I wrapt... | |
 | 1811 - 600 頁
...of it, extended legal toleration on one side as nrjch as it restrained it on the other, ' Resembled ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly ; « Yet I trust they will operate as a solemn warning to those, if in these enlightened times there... | |
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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, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught... 
