 When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Seite 118von Edward Young - 1802 - 383 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 Seiten
...for which all other days were made; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created...wish Lets go its eager grasp, and drops the world. (ix, 217-223) Unlike Pope's in The Dunciad, Young's apocalypse is moral and metaphysical rather than... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...haunts transgression to the tomb, Then prays on endlessness to come, Whose worm may never die. GrREAT day of dread, decision, and despair ! At thought of...thee, each sublunary wish Lets go its eager grasp, and quits the world. YOUNG. I;LL tell thee what is hell — thy memory Still mountained up with records... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1999 - 319 Seiten
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...day of dread, decifion, and delpair! At though: of thce, each (ubluhary with Lets go its eager gralp, and drops the world; And catches at each reed of hope in heav'n. At thought of thee !— And art thou ab feat, the«! Lorenzo ! no : 'tis here ; — it is begun... | |
 | 1909 - 928 Seiten
...the writers evidently thought to soliloquize in Hamlet's vein : " Great day of judgment and eternity, At thought of thee, each sublunary wish Lets go its eager grasp." or " Know all, know infidels unapt to know, 'Tis immortality your nature solves, 'Tis immortality decyphers... | |
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