 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English poetry - 1717 - 580 pages
...can her Maker fraife. The The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give 0Vr; So calm are we, when Taj/ions are no more : For then we know how vain it was to boeft Of fleeting Things, fo certain to lie lojt. Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 pages
...does her felf erect: No mortal Parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give o'er; So calm are we, when Paflions are no more: For then we know how vain it was te boaft Of fleeting Things, Co certain to be... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...can her MAK ER praife. The fens are quiet, when the winds give-o'er: So> calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbony'd can her MA KER praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er. So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to beaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...diftant height above, Nor depths below, fhall part me from thy love, THE STATE OF OLD AGE. TH E feas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when paffions rage no more ; Clouds of affection from our younger eyes, Conceals that emptinefs which time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requif:te to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er: So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boafl Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | John Almon - English literature - 1784 - 422 pages
...Ingrato celeres obruit otio Ventos,— ut cancrtt (era Nereus fata. HOR. ode XV. lib. i, The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light, thro' chinks which time has made. WALLER, TO THE REVEREND DOCTOR PRICE. DEAR SIR, YOUR. Philofophical Obfervations... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...herfelf erect. No mortal parts are requifite to raifc Her that, unbody'd, can her maker praife. The feas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when paffions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm...age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 448 pages
...Author of Hudjlras, by Alderman Barber. WARBURTON. IMITATIONS. VER. 126. Admire new light, £s°c.] " The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light, thro' chinks that time has made." WALLER. WARBURTON. And while on Fame's triumphal Car they ride, Some Slave of mine be pinion'd to their... | |
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.... 
