 | 1856 - 634 pages
...in mental philosophy with the most seductive charms of sensibility and poetry. For example : — ' Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the car, Still nerved for action in her native sphere,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...to sigh ! z The weary waste, that lengthened as he ran, Fades to a blank, and dwindles to a span ! / Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, /By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...but to sigh! r The weary waste, that lengthened as he ran, Fades to a blank, and dwindles to a span ! Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...sigh .' (22) The weary waste that lengthened as he ran, Fades to a blank, and dwindles to a span ! Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? Still nerved for action in her native sphere, When age has quenched the eye and closed the ear, Oft... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...but to sigh ! z The weary waste, that lengthened as he ran, Fades to a blank, and dwindles to a span! Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...MAGAZINE. 1 Ah! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, l!y truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise— with searching glance pursue Some long loved image vanished from her view \ "—Rogers.... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...glows ; Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of night ! With the mild magic of reflected light. 4 And who can tell the triumphs of the mind By truth illumined and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye and closed the ear, 5 Still nerved for action in her native sphere,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...dwindles to a *pan! Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind. Ry truth illumined, nnd by taste refined? When Age has quenched the eye and closed the ear. Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glunr. pursue Some long-loved image vanished from In • Tiew;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...The weary waste, that lengthened as he ran, fades to a hlank, and dwindles to u span ! Ah ! who ran tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...sigh ! (24) The weary waste, that lengthon'd as he ran, Fades to a blank, and dwindles to a «pan ! Ah! who can tell the triumphs of the mind. By truth illumined, and by taste refined Î When age hae quench 'd liio eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere,... | |
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Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved... 
