 Now quenching in a boundless sea of clouds — Calm and alternate storm, moisture and drought, Invigorate by turns the springs of life In all that live — plant, animal, and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine passing thought, e'en...  Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry, and a ... - Page 217by William Cowper - 1841Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...springs of life In all that live, plant, animal, and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine, passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. 454 Thought cannot spend itself, comparing stiH The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...springs of life, In all that lives, plant, animal and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine, passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, com paringstill, The great and iittle of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity, into a state Of matchless... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...springs of life, In all that lives, plant, animal and man. And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine, passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...sustain The force that agitates not unimpair'd. But worn hy frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone, their dissolution owe. Thought cannot tpend itself,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pages
...springs of life In all that live, plant, animal, and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine, passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...unimpair'd, But, worn by frequent impulse, to the cause eir best tone their dissolution owe. 456 Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...tendency of long-continued intellectual exertion, to weaken the fibres of the brain : « Nature's threads, Fine, passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...in agitation, yet sustain The force that agitates them, not unimpaii'd ; But worn by frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 512 pages
...her coarsest works, Delight in agitation, yet sustain The force that agitates them, not iraimpaii'd , But worn by frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe." It sooths me that you regret the not having sought my personal society, while only a distance of thirty... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 528 pages
...springs of life In all that live, plant, animal, and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. .• iif* From almost nullity into a slate Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, ' Slow, into... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...springs of life In all that live, plant, animal, and man, And in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine passing thought, e'en in her coarsest works,...The force, that agitates, not unimpair'd ; But, worn hy frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 400 pages
...her coarsest work*, Delight in agitation, yet sustain, The force, that agitates, not uniropair'd ; But, worn by frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone tbeir dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing stiU The great and little of thy lot,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...plant, animal, and man — Aud in conclusion mar them. Nature's threads, Fine passing thought, ev'n in her coarsest works, Delight in agitation, yet sustain The force that agitates, not unimpatr'd ; But, worn by frequent impulse, to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe.... | |
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