 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1717 - 580 pages
...can her Maker fraife. The The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give 0Vr; So calm are we, when Taj/ions are no more : For then we know how vain it was to boeft Of fleeting Things, fo certain to lie lojt. Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 pages
...does her felf erect: No mortal Parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give o'er; So calm are we, when Paflions are no more: For then we know how vain it was te boaft Of fleeting Things, Co certain to be... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1744 - 496 pages
...can her MAK ER praife. The fens are quiet, when the winds give-o'er: So> calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1768 - 366 pages
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbony'd can her MA KER praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er. So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to beaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...diftant height above, Nor depths below, fhall part me from thy love, THE STATE OF OLD AGE. TH E feas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when paffions rage no more ; Clouds of affection from our younger eyes, Conceals that emptinefs which time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 pages
...herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requif:te to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er: So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boafl Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...herfelf erect. No mortal parts are requifite to raifc Her that, unbody'd, can her maker praife. The feas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when paffions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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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.... 
