 | James Thomson - 1793 - Počet stránok 300
...cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? 70 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - Počet stránok 320
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to fev'rish vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - Počet stránok 344
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive* Wildered, and tossing through... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - Počet stránok 340
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, . To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 852
...student.' He rose to his duties with the first dawn of day. While others were yet merged in sleep, • in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life,' he was already ' up and doing.' And to his morning studies he attributed, with Baxter, Paley, Wesley,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - Počet stránok 232
...cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? 70 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - Počet stránok 242
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? 10 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th'enlightened soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | 1810 - Počet stránok 420
...cultivation of intellect ? Or to speak in the words of the poet already quoted — Is there aught in tleep 'can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life, Total extinction ef the enlightened soul ! Chtrry-Strect. AMG Virtues, like essences, lose their fr«grance... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - Počet stránok 524
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilderd, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - Počet stránok 444
...The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion,...losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of the' enlighten'd soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
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Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half... 
