 | The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes |  |
How few can rescue opulence from want!
Who lives to Nature rarely can be poor;
Who lives to Fancy never can be rich.
Poor is the man in debt; the man of gold,
In debt to Fortune, trembles at her power:
The man of Reason smiles at her and Death.
O what a patrimony this! A being
Of such inherent strength and majesty,
Not worlds possess'd can raise it; worlds destroy'd
Can't injure; which holds on its glorious course,
When thine, O Nature! ends; too bless'd to mourn
Creation's obsequies. What treasure this!
The monarch is a beggar to the man.
Who lives to Nature rarely can be poor;
Who lives to Fancy never can be rich.
Poor is the man in debt; the man of gold,
In debt to Fortune, trembles at her power:
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O what a patrimony this! A being
Of such inherent strength and majesty,
Not worlds possess'd can raise it; worlds destroy'd
Can't injure; which holds on its glorious course,
When thine, O Nature! ends; too bless'd to mourn
Creation's obsequies. What treasure this!
The monarch is a beggar to the man.
| The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes | |