... frail and uncertain ! where shall wretched man find thy resemblance but in ice floating on the ocean ? It towers on high, it sparkles from afar, while the storms drive and the waters beat it, the sun melts it above, and the rocks shatter it below.... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 273de Samuel Johnson - 1820Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1752 - 196 páginas
...fhatter " it below. What is pleafure but a fudden blaze " fbeaming from the north, which plays a mo" ment on the eye, mocks the. traveller with the " hopes of light, and then vanimes for ever? " What is love but a whirlpool, which we ap" proach without knowledge of our danger,... | |
| 1785 - 596 páginas
...below. What art thoii, deceitful pleafure! but a fudden blaze ftreaming from the north, which phys a moment on the eye, mocks the traveller with the hopes of light, and then vaniflies forever? What, love, art thou but a whirlpool, which we approach without knowledge of our... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 páginas
...<c the rocks fhatter it below.. What art thou, dexc ceitful pleafure ! but a fodden blaze dreaming " from the north, which plays a moment on the > •*'...the traveller with the hopes of light, ." and then vanifhes for ever? What, love, art thou •*' but a whirlpool, which we approach without •" knowledge... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 páginas
...north, which plays a moment on the eye, mocks the traveller with the hopes of light, and then vanimes for ever? What, love, art thou but a whirlpool, which...danger, drawn on by imperceptible degrees, till we have loft all power of refinance and efcape ? Till I fixed my eyes on the graces of Ajut, while I had yet... | |
| 1792 - 822 páginas
...the rocks » fhatter it below. What art thou, ' deceitful plealure, but a fudden • blaze ftreaming from the north, « which plays a moment on the eye,...the traveller with the hopes • of light, and then vanifhes for ever ? ' What, love, art thou but a whirl« pool, which we approach without ' knowledge... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 páginas
..." the rocks fhacter it below. What art thou, de" ceitful pleafure ! but a fudden blaze ttreaming " from the north, which plays a moment on the " eye,...the traveller with the hopes of light, " and then vanifhes for ever ? What, love, art thou " but a whirlpool, which we approach without " knowledge of... | |
| 1801 - 320 páginas
...and the rocks " matter it below. What art them, deceitful " pleafure ! but a fudden blaze ftreaming from " the north, which plays a moment on the eye,...the traveller with the hopes of light, " and then vanifhes for ever ? What, love, art " thou but a whirlpool, which we approach with" out knowledge of... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 266 páginas
...it, " the sun melts it above, and the rocks shatter it " below. What art thou, deceitful pleasure ! but a " sudden blaze streaming from the north, which...Till I fixed my eyes on the graces of Ajut, while " I had not yet called her to the banquet, I was " careless as the sleeping morse, I was merry " as the... | |
| 1803 - 268 páginas
...it, the sun melts it above, ' and the rocks shatter it below. What ail thou, de' ceitful pleasure ! but a sudden blaze streaming from ' the north, which...' the traveller with the hopes of light, and then vanish" ' es for ever? What, love, art tiiou but a whirlpool, ' which we approach without knowledge... | |
| Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 páginas
...and the rocks shatter it below. What art " tbou, deceitful pleasure ! but a sudden blaze slream" ing from the north, which plays a moment on the " eye,...light, " and then vanishes for ever ? What, love, art them " but a whirlpool, which we approach without know" ledge of our danger, drawn on by imperceptible... | |
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