 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, rapturM or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge. Resembles...myself; How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterM was my grovelling soul! How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken thought,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 頁
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed, bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made...they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And sw Thought» on Time. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 頁
...' Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness; Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed, : At ought, this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean...tempest wrought, To waft a feather or to drown a fly." |1'fc .-'-.' ' ' ' Is it .possible, can you indeed pass through life, and seldom think on the impressive... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1831 - 322 頁
...ungentle voice, will produce an irritating reply, and this a severe rejoinder, and presently, the affair i Resembles ocean, into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." This ungentleness has a mournful effect on the character of children, when exhibited in parents. It... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1832 - 64 頁
...merely to attest the sanctity or superior faith'of the persons instrumental in performing them, it Resembles ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. — YOUNG. If it be to render the word of God, and the means of grace, more efficacious, it is a direct... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 636 頁
...alt 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 ocean into tempest wrought, To wall a feather, or to drown a fly. YOUNG. things our competitors enjoy, takes a secret pleasure in... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 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...incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul ! How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken thought, which reptile fancy... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 頁
...to be attained and its ultimate result, inclines us in the language of the poet to say, it resembled "ocean into tempest wrought to waft a feather or to drown a fly." How far the facts stated in the report accord with the statements and assumptions made in the protest,... | |
 | 1836 - 558 頁
...her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd A t aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...this censure ? it o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart instructed by the world ! O how sclf-fctter'd was my groveling soul ! How, like a worm, was I wrapt... | |
 | Edward Young - 1837 - 310 頁
...ioieness, 150 Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or induige, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather...this censure ? it o'erwhelms myself; How was my heart instructed by the world ! 156 O how self-fetter'd was my grovelling soul ! How like a worm, was I wrapp'd... | |
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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... 
