 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. LEM IRA'S sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes ; but where 's his patient ? At the ball.... | |
 | English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...solid joys, In Fancy's airy land of nuise and show. Where nought but dream*, no real pleasures, grow,. Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick, make haste; the doctor call: He comes; but where 's his patient ? at ihe ball. 180 The... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...others, odd and quaint. I shall produce one as a specimen, which you may clas» sit'y as your judgement shall direct: ' Like cats in airpumps, to subsist...excluded it. Yet his account in the seventh satire <5f the final cause of that principle, the love of fame, i» introduced by come very noble lines, which... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...some unexpected resemblance) he abounds. Almost every page affords instances of his inventive powers m this respect ; some, truly beautiful ; others, odd...majestic or dignified in Young's satires ; not that lie was incapable of sublimity, but because the view he took of men and manners generally excluded... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 230 pages
...solid joys, In Fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow, Like cats in airpumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick; make haste ; the doctor call: He comes ; but whcre's his patient ? at the ball. The... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow } Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick; make haste; the doctor call : Becomes; but where's his patient? At the ball. The doctor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...solid joys, Infancy'e airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick ; make haste; the doctor call : He comes ; but where's his patient ? At the ball. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...Jit fancy's airy land of noise and show,Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cols in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. 1 Lemira's sick ; make haste; the doctor call : He comes ; but where's his patient ? At the ball. The... | |
 | Edward Young - Drama - 1811 - 294 pages
...solid joys, Infancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. LEMIRA'S sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes -, but where's his patient ? At the ball. The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. * » * * * Such blessings nature pours, O'erstock'd mankind enjoy but half her stores: In distant wilds,... | |
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Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. 
