| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Страниц: 680
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mare suicides in ease; And how I do myself demean In stormy...the luck of heirs ; Reason, some quiet to restore, Show'd part was substance, shadow more; With Spleen's dead weight though heavy grown, In life's rough... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 686
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease; And how I do myself demean In stormy.../ With frightful figures spreads life's scene, And threat'niiig prospect» urg'd my fears, A stranger to the luck of heirs ; Reason, some quiet to restore,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Страниц: 680
...serene. When by its magic lantern Spleen With frightful figures spreads life's scene, And threatening «, Lost his kingdom and provinces Show'd part was substance, shadow more; With Spleen's dead weight though heavy grown, . In life's rough... | |
| 1814 - Страниц: 310
...take to drive away .... .• . . .. The day -mare Spleen, by whose false pleas .,- . Men prove mere suicides in ease ? And how I do myself demean In stormy world to live serene ? - i * GiMon's Art of Poetry. •!• t A painted vest Prince Vortiger had on, Which from a naked... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Страниц: 462
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease; And how I do myself demean, In stormy world to live serene. And there unseen commit a theft On wealth, in Greek exchequers left Then where ? from whom ? what can... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare, Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere friend ; Dreading cv'n fools, by flatterers bcsieg'd,...sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish fbce of praise Show'd part was substance, shadow more ; With Spleen's dead weight though heavy grown, In life'a rough... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - Страниц: 364
...lay, What course I take to drive away -. . ; The day-mare, Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease ; And how I do myself demean In stormy...prospects urg'd my fears, A stranger to the luck of heirs ; * A painted vest Prince Vortiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. HOWARD'S British... | |
| British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 282
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease ; And how I do myself demean, In...by its magic lantern Spleen With frightful figures spread life's scene, And threatening prospects urged my fears, A stranger to the luck of heirs; 2 '... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - Страниц: 460
...question lay, What course I take to drive away The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease ; And how I do myself demean, In stormy world to live serene. When by its magic-lantern Spleen With frightful figures spreads life's scene, And threatening prospects urged my... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - Страниц: 840
...Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease ; And bow I do myself demean In stonny world to live serene. When by its magic lantern Spleen...the luck of heirs ; Reason, some quiet to restore, Sbow'd part was substance, shadow more ; With Spleen's dead weight though heavy grown, In life's rough... | |
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