 And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplations, dwell; And like the block, unmoved lay: but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there...  Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy - Seite 9von Sir John Denham - 1709 - 330 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles. And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, ho teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements t contemplation dwell ; And like the block unmoved lay ; but ours, As much too active, like the stork... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles. And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell, In empty aery contemplations dwell ; And, like the block, unmoved lay : but ours, As much too active, like the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles; And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did religion in a lazy cell,...contemplations dwell ; And like the block, unmoved lay : hut oura, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there no tcmp'rate region can be known Betwixt... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles. And thus to th" ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplation dwell; " And like the block unmoved lay ; but ours, As much too active, like the stork... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 Seiten
...charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplation dwell ; And like the block unmoved lay ; but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there no temperate region can be known Betwixt their frigid and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 Seiten
...»re sharper than their styles. And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity de»trovs, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell,...contemplations, dwell; And like the block, unmoved lay: but oura, AII mnch too active, like the stork devours. Is there no temperate region can be known BetwUt... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles. And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did religion in a lazy cell, In empty aery contemplation dwell; And, like the block, unmoved lay; but ours, As much too active, like the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their styles. And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did religion in a lazy cell. In empty aery contemplation dwell; And, like the block, unmoved lay; but ours. As much too active, like the... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1928 - 386 Seiten
...are sharper than their stiles.19 And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their Charity destroys, their Faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy Cell,...like the block, unmoved lay : but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there no temperate Region can be known, Betwixt their Frigid, and... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...swords are sharper than their stiles. And thus to th'ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell....like the block, unmoved lay: but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there no temperate region can be known. Betwixt their Frigid, and... | |
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