| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 258 pages
...fkipping light, The vapour dances in his dazzled fight, Till, fpent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him underftand, After a fearch fo painful and fo long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 248 pages
...flapping light, The vapour dances in his dazzled fight, Till, fpent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand. Lead him to Death, and make him underftand,. After a feaich fo painful and fo long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled... | |
| 1793 - 806 pages
...ilcipping light, The vapour dances in his dazzled fight, Till, fpent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand. Lead him to death, and make him underdand, After a fearch fo painful and fo long, That all his life he ha« been in the wrong. Huddled... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...(kipping light, The vapour darken in his dazzkd fight. Till, f|>ent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him undcrftand, After a foarch fo painful and fo long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...dazzling sight, "Till, spent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then old age and experience, hand-in-hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After...long, That, all his life, he has been in the wrong. Huddled in dirt, the reas'ning engine lies, AVho was so proud, so witty, and so wise. Pride drew him... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...sight, Till, spent, it leaves him to eternal night. Then Old Age and Ex|>crienee, hand in hand, J/'.id ^ Kb o*v 7 э Z 5< ? e R AL O a C Hu lie has been in the wrong. Huddled in dirt, this reasoning engine lies, Who was so proud, so witty,... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1814 - 536 pages
...uufammenbïuctcn , tveldje alö ein Coin« mentar ju jenem fd>recHlicI;en îcytc selten f innen : Then old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to...death, and make him understand, , . After a search so painfull and so long, That all hie life he has been in the wrong. 2B«$ ferner bie englifdjen Sidjter... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, I Lead him to Death, and make him understand, — — V After a search so painful and so long, ' That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled in dirt, this reasoning engine lies, Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise : Pride drew him... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German literature - 1819 - 392 pages
...Jiifatnmenbrucfèn, roeíd;e «íé ein mentar ju jenem fcfyrecflicfyen Vejete gelten f 6nnen : Then old Ago and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painfull and so long-, That all his life he has 'been in the wrong. ferner bie engKJfäen Sichrer поф... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...poetry may be collected together, and they will only afford a commentary on this appalling text:— Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to...long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. There is one trait peculiar to the English, which impresses on their poetry the seal of misanthropy,... | |
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