Tis done! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies! How dumb the tuneful! horror wide extends .His desolate domain. The Seasons: By James Thomson - Page 161by James Thomson - 1769 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
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...1010 Looks down with pity on the feeble toil Of mortals loft to hope, and lights them fafe, Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate. 'Tis done! dread...lies ! How dumb the tuneful! Horror wide extends His defolato domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy piftur'd life; pafs fome few years, Thy flowering... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
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...done T di«ad Winter fpreads his lateft *• glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. ide my age ! Sec, modcft Cibbcr now has left the Stage ; Our Gen'rals now, rctir'd to defolatc domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy piftur'd life: pafs fomc few years, Thy flow'ring... | |
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...hungry howl Of famifh'd monfters, there awaiting wrecks. Yet PROVIDENCE, that ever-waking eye, 1020Looks down with pity on the feeble toil Of mortals loft...His defolate domain. Behold, fond Man ! See here thy pi&ur'd life ; pafs fome few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent ftrength, Thy fober Autumn... | |
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