 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 էջ
...silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? 70 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 էջ
...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to fev'rish vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 էջ
...the silent hour, . To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 էջ
...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th' enlightened soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive* Wildered, and tossing through... | |
 | 1832 - 852 էջ
...student.' He rose to his duties with the first dawn of day. While others were yet merged in sleep, • in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life,' he was already ' up and doing.' And to his morning studies he attributed, with Baxter, Paley, Wesley,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 էջ
...silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? 70 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
 | 1810 - 420 էջ
...to speak in the words of the poet already quoted — Is there aught in tleep 'can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life, Total extinction ef the enlightened soul ! Chtrry-Strect. AMG Virtues, like essences, lose their fr«grance... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 էջ
...silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? 10 For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th'enlightened soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive, 75 Wildered, and tossing... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 էջ
...the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of the' enlighten'd soul! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 էջ
...silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilderd, and tossing... | |
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Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half... 
