 O'erwhelming turrets threaten ere they fall ; Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue ; Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire : Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Stran 103avtor: British poets - 1822Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 strani
...world without reserve — I had almost said, without delicacy. Young, with gloomy candour, has said " se what he teaches ; are you to give up your former conviction.' At this rate you would b What a man must Johnson have been, whose heart, having been laid more bare than that of any other mortal... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 strani
...without reserve — I had almost said, without delicacy. Young, with gloomy candour, has said • ' Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart.' What a man must Johnson have been, whose heart, having been laid more bare than that of any other mortal... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 strani
...her yawning jaws devour; And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire; Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow....this the flight of fancy? would it were! Heaven's Sov'reign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Fired is the muse?... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 324 strani
...her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire Kuin from man is most conceal'd when near. And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Is this the flight of fancy ? would it were .' Heav'n's Sovereign saves all beings but himself. That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Fired... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 414 strani
...Creech. Things are, like myself, not what they ought to be; yet better than what they appear to be. " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself — That hideous sight — a naked human heart." Farewell ! remember me to Charlotte. RB No. XCI. TO MRS DUNLOP. EDINBURGH, January 21, 1788. AFTKR... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 strani
...her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke betrays the wide consuming tiro : Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Is this the flight of Fancy ? would it were ! iW5 Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Fired... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 strani
...her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke betrays the wide consuming tiro : Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Is this the flight of Fancy ? would it were ! 2*5 Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Fired... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 strani
...her yawninp jaws devour, And smoke betrays the wide consuming fire; Ruin from man is most concealed when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Is this the flight of fancy ? Would it were. Hiaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself; That hideous sight a naked human heart. All this,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 strani
...her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke betrays the wide'consuming tiro : Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Is this the flight of Fancy ? would it were ! 2«J5 Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1851 - 334 strani
...her yawning jaws devour; And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire : Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow....: Who not inflamed, when what he speaks, he feels, ^nd in the nerve most tender, in his friends ? 3hame to mankind ! PHILANDER had his foes : He felt... | |
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