 | English poetry - 1787 - 446 pages
...before ? 40 So Providence on mortals waits, Preserving what it first creates. Your gen'rous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage which can make you just 45 To merit humbled in the dust; The detestation you express For vice in all ils glitt'ring dress ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 456 pages
...death before? So Providence on mortals waits, Preserving what it first creates. Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage...That patience under torturing pain, Where stubborn stoicks would complain i Must these like empty shadows pass, Or forms reflected from a glass ? Or mere... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 pages
...death before ? So Providence on mortals waits. Preserving what it first creates. Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage...That patience under torturing pain, Where stubborn stoicks would complain : Mnst these like empty shadows pass, Or forms reflected from a glass ? Or mere... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...And then'supporting with your store Those whom you dragg'd from death before ? Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend; That courage...vice in all its glittering dress; That patience under tort'ring pain Where stubborn stoics would complain ? In the lines " To Stella visiting him in sickness,"... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...death before ? So Providence on mortals waits, Preserving what it first creates. Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage...glittering dress ; That patience under torturing pain, When: stubborn stoics would complain; Must these like empty shadows pass, Or forms reflected from a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...death before f So Providence on mortals waits, Preserving what it first creates. Your genermis boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage...detestation you express For vice in all its glittering drew ; That patience under tottering pain, Where stubborn stoics would complalnj Must these like empty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...dust) The detestation you exprima For vice in all iba glittering dres»; That patience under totfrring pain, Where stubborn stoics would complain} Must these...like empty shadows pass. Or forms reflected from a gla?s Î Or mere chimeras in the mind, That fly, and leave no mark behind t Does not the body thrive... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...death before? so Providence on mortals waits, preserving what it first creates. Your generous boldness to defend an innocent and absent friend ; that courage...can make you just to merit humbled in the dust; the destestation you express for vice in all it's glittering dress; that patience under tort'ring pain,... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...before f Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage which can makeyou just To merit humbled in the dust ; The detestation you express For vice in all its glittering dresj ; That patience under tort'ring pain Where stubborn stoics would complain ?" * * Tbese Hues would... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...pain, where stubborn stoics would complain; must these Irke empty shadows pass, or forms neglected from a glass ? or mere chimeras in the mind, that fly, and leave no mark behind ? Does not the body thrive and grow by food of twenty years ago ? and, had it not been... | |
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Your generous boldness to defend An innocent and absent friend ; That courage which can make you just To merit humbled in the dust ; The detestation you express For vice in all its glittering dress... 
