 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...living death? O! galliiig-circumstance to human, pride ! Abasing thought.' but not to be denied. JPith curious art, the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy' d by thought. CHURCHILL. THE following passages present to the reader a description of Mr.... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
.......... ;. ;, ,,, O galling circumstance to human pride ! ...... Abasing thought, but not to be denied ! With curious art the brain too finely wrought, ,;•,••> Preys on herself, and is destroy 'd by thought ; , , ,, , ', Constant Attention wears the active mind, -. - .x ' Blots out her... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...monuments of living death > O galling circumstance to human pride ! Abasing thought, but not to be denied ! With curious art the brain too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought ; Constant Attention wears the active mind, Blots out her powers, and leaves a... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 482 pages
...monuments of living death ? O, galling circumstance to human pride! Abasing thought! but not to be deny'd. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, " Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought. " Constant attention wears the active mind, " Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves... | |
 | England - 1845 - 808 pages
...of living Death ! O ! galling circumstance to human pride ! Abasing thought ! but not to be deny'd. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy 'd by thought. Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves a... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...; and when thinking is goaded on to exhaustion, confusion of ideas ensues, as straining any one of our limbs by excessive exertion produces tremor and...brain too finely wrought Preys on herself, and is destroy 'd by Thought ; Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out her powers, and leaves... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 276 pages
...monuments of living death ? O, galling circumstance to human pride ! Abasing thought, but not to be denied. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought : Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our powers, and leaves a... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...shattering a constitution naturally firm. " With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on itself and is destroyed by thought. Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out its powers, and leaves the blank behind." If grandeur, elegance, and poignancy of genius ; — if a... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...What bitter pangs must humble genius feel In their last hours to view a Swift and Steele ! * * . * * With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy 'd by thought! Constant attention wears the active mind, ' Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...What bitter pangs must humble genius feel ln their last hours to view a Swift and Steele ! * « * » With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy 'd by thought! Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves a... | |
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out her powers, and leaves a blank behind. 
