 | 1821 - Počet stránok 614
...greater than the plague. To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. ON THE ADVANTAGES OF READING. Falsely luxurious will not man awake, And, springing...due, and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep to charm the wise, To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life, Total... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - Počet stránok 510
...children leave ; Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.. THE SEASONS. — Summer, 1. 67. For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To...a life ; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul 1 Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wildered, and tossing thro' distemper'd dreams ? Who would in such... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Počet stránok 280
...fold, in order drives His (lock to taste the verdure of the morn.. Falsely luxurious, will not nsan awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy...hour To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there ought in sle'ep can charm the wise ?. To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Počet stránok 280
...luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing fr^m the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the frajrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there ought in sleep can charm the wise To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - Počet stránok 458
...very early riser. Was ever the bed of sloth more eloquently reprohated than in the following lines ? Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing...moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else, to feverish vanity alive, Wilder'd and tossing thro' distemper'd dreams... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 272
...he dwells; And from the crowded fold, in order, drives His flock, to taste the verdure of the morn. Falsely luxurious! will not man awake; And, springing...moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of the' enlighten'd soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing through distemper'd... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - Počet stránok 234
...Music awakes ; The native voice of undissembled joy ; And thick around the woodland hymns resound. Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing...sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, loosing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of the enlightened soul ;... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - Počet stránok 252
...dwells, And from the crowded fold, in order, drives His flock to taste the verdure of the morn. 5. Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? J 6. For is there aught in sleep can charin the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1822 - Počet stránok 26
...constitution than two much sleep on this subject the inimitable thomson expresses himself as follows is there aught in sleep can charm the wise To lie...fleeting moments of too short a life Total extinction of the enlightened soul Africans say that before Christians visited them they lived at peace but whenever... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - Počet stránok 174
...the crowded fold, in order, drives His flock, to taste the verdure of the morn. Falsely luxurious 1 will not Man awake ; And, springing from the bed of...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song i For is there aught in sleep cau charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting... | |
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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... 
