 O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul ! Who think it solitude, to be alone. Communion sweet ! communion large and high ! Our reason, guardian angel, and our God ! Then nearest these, when others most remote ;...  Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality - Page 30by Edward Young - 1816 - 268 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 370 pages
...moment sworn, I keep my assignation with my woe. O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to die noble sallies of the soul ! Who think it solitude,...when Others most remote ; And all, ere long, shall be remote, but. these. How dreadful, then, to meet them all alone, A stranger ! unacknowledg'd ! unapprov'd... | |
 | Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...no one to quarrel with ; in good health and happy. Is it not Young who says, '' O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul ! Who think it solitude to be alone." You know I always carry a portable library about with me, so I am never without food of some kind or... | |
 | Luther Fraseur Dimmick - 1846 - 236 pages
...home.' " Retirement is a remedy against many evils, and a source of many pleasures. ' O lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...— Then nearest these, when others most remote.' " I think I can say, that some of the hours spent alone, have been by far the most rational, the most... | |
 | Edward Young - 1847 - 344 pages
...hour, Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn, I keep my assignation with my woe. O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...alone. Communion sweet ! communion large and high 1 Our reason, guardian angel, and our God ! Then nearest these, when others most remote ; And all,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...hour, Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn, I keep my assignation with my woe. 6 O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...Communion sweet ! communion large and high ! Our reason, guardian-angel, and our God ! Then nearest these, when others most remote ; And all, ere long, shall... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...hour, Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn, I keep my assignation with my woe. O 1 lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...Communion sweet ! communion large and high ! Our reason, guardian-angel, and our God? Then nearest these, when others most remote ; And all, ere long, shall... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...hour, Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn. I keep my assignation with my woe. 5 O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...Communion sweet ! communion large and high ! Our reason, guardian-angel, and our God ! 10 Then nearest these, when others most remote ; And all, ere long, shall... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pages
...hour, Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn, I keep iry assignation with my woe. 6 O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, » Lost to the noble sallies...Communion sweet ! communion large and high ! Our reason, guardian-an<rei, and our God ! 10 Then nearest these, when others most remote ; And all, ere long,... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 pages
...think it a curse to be so dependent on foreign resources and artificial excitement. " 0 lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...these, when others most remote ; And all ere long shall be remote but these ; How dreadful then to meet them all alone, A stranger ! unacknowledged—unapproved... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 pages
...think it a curse to be so dependent on foreign resources and artificial excitement. " 0 lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of...these, when others most remote ; And all ere long shall be remote but these ; How dreadful then to meet them all alone, A stranger ! unacknowledged — unapproved... | |
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