The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young ... Rev. and Collated with the Earliest Editions: To which is Prefixed, Volume 2W. Tegg and Company, 1854 |
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Page 329 - Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth.
Page 516 - He was sent for, that the doctor might read to him his Conjectures on Original Composition, which he did, and Dr Johnson made his remarks; and he was surprised to find Young receive as novelties, what he thought very common maxims.
Page 215 - If cold white mortals censure this great deed, Warn them, they judge not of superior beings, Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom Revenge is virtue.
Page 419 - ... on the future. Worse dread of the future, strikes it back on the past. I turn, and turn, and find no ray. Didst thou feel half the mountain that is on me, thou wouldst struggle with the martyr for his stake ; and bless heaven for the flames ; — that is not an everlasting flame ; that is not an unquenchable fire.
Page 517 - Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Page 320 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 355 - AND again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
Page 321 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 471 - Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he spake the word, and they were made ; he commanded, and they were created.
Page 471 - Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host! Praise, him sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!