 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...have just quoted, for the last stanza shews that it was dictated by despair and anguish of mind ; " No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he" , Cowper was haunted with the dreadful idea of final reprobation, and well might his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize- the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay d, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'dfrom all effectual aid. We perish'd, each alone ;... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 452 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...delights to trace Its 'semblance in another's case. i No voice divine the storm allay d, No light propitious shone ; When, snatch'djrom all effectual aid,... | |
 | English poetry - 1804 - 862 pages
...immortalise tke dead. . : • - «.«'. .. * I thery forç purposp riQt, qr dream, Descanting' on h:e fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date. But misery still delicts to trace In 'semblance in another's ease. ' No voice divine the storm allay 'd, No light propitious... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate! To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone ; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | English literature - 1804 - 844 pages
...or heroes shed, , Alike immortalise the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date ; But misery stiil delights to trace Its 'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm alhy'd, No light... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate ! To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 312 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead, I therefore purpose not, or dream,. Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine. the storm allay'd,No light propitious shone ; When snatch'd from all effectual aid, "We perish'd each alone ;... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...over-board in a storm, and is forced to be abandoned to the waves, he concludes with saying, that — Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay 'd, No light propitious shone, When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, Count of Paleno, however,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, nor dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone ; When snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each, alone... | |
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... he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose... 
