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 | 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 |  |
Man's heart the' Almighty to the future sets,
By secret and inviolable springs;
And makes his hope his sublunary joy.
Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still:
“More, more!” the glutton cries: for something new
So rages Appetite, if man can't mount,
He will descend. He starves on the possess'd.
Hence, the world's master, from Ambition's spire,
In Caprea plunged, and dived beneath the brute.
In that rank sty why wallow'd Empire's son
Supreme? Because he could no higher fly;
His riot was Ambition in despair.
By secret and inviolable springs;
And makes his hope his sublunary joy.
Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still:
“More, more!” the glutton cries: for something new
So rages Appetite, if man can't mount,
He will descend. He starves on the possess'd.
Hence, the world's master, from Ambition's spire,
In Caprea plunged, and dived beneath the brute.
In that rank sty why wallow'd Empire's son
Supreme? Because he could no higher fly;
His riot was Ambition in despair.
| 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 | |