 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm...know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...does herself erect : % mortal parts are requisite to raise Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er : So, calm are we, when passions are no more ! Far then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Ckwb of affection... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...celebrated poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm...are no more ; • • ' for then we know how vain it were to boast . , / Of fleeting things so certain to be lost; , Clouds of affection from our younger... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...celebrated poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more i For then we know how vain it were to boast . . , Of fleeting things so certain to be lost ; , Clouds... | |
 | W. Plees - Jersey - 1817 - 410 pages
...the following exquisitely beautiful lines pf Waller, which arc sufficient to immortalize his name : ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time bus made. ' Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, ' As we draw near to our eternal home. ' Quitting... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...when passions are no mure ! For then we know how vain' it was to bo;ist Of fleeting things, so curtain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes...emptiness, which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and deeay'd. Lets in new light , t hruugh chinks t hat ti me has made : Stronger by weakness,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er: So calm...know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so 'certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age... | |
 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. WALLER. cxxxr. THE seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more ! For...know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...write with more perspicuity and force. — And here we might adopt the sentiments of an eminent poet : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. And now let us pause. — For whom are we sorrowing? Whose eulogj are we attempting to speak ? What... | |
 | Asia - 1827 - 918 pages
...tiaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more 'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the... | |
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So, calm are we when passions are no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.... 
