 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 Seiten
...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,...Paflions are no more: For then we know how vain it was te boaft Of fleeting Things, Co certain to be loflv Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 Seiten
...nor 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 - 1779 - 274 Seiten
...flooping, does 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:...are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boafl Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 276 Seiten
...ftooping, does herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite 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 paffions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 Seiten
...{looping does 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 Seiten
...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 are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 Seiten
...poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " 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 were to boast . , / Of fleeting things... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 Seiten
...poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more i For then we know how vain it were to boast . . , Of fleeting things so certain... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 Seiten
...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 are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so 'certain to... | |
 | 1843 - 350 Seiten
...weakness may be prone, Let's learn to live, — for we must die, — alone ! Crabbe. OLD AGE. 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... | |
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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. 
