 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.  Quips and Cranks - Seite 157von Tom Hood - 1861 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1717 - 580 Seiten
...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 - 1744 - 496 Seiten
...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 - 1768 - 366 Seiten
...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 be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 Seiten
...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 be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 Seiten
...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 be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 Seiten
...resolutions deckt, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet...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.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...praise. The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er : So, calm are we, when passions are no more ! Far then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Ckwb of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness, which age descries.... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 Seiten
...celebrated 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 no more ; • • ' for then we know how vain it were to boast . , / Of fleeting things so certain to be lost; , Clouds of affection from our younger... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 Seiten
...resolutions deck'd, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet...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... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 Seiten
...heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. WALLER. cxxxr. THE seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more ! For...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... | |
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