Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not becau...se any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, when our mortal frame shall be disjoin'd, The lifeless lump uncoupled from the mind,... From sense of grief and pain we shall be free; We shall not feel, because we shall not be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--Nature whose heedless might, Casts, like some shipwrecked sailor, the poor babe,... Naked and bleating on the shores of light?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When heaven and earth were in confusion hurl'd For the debated empire of the world,... Which awed with dreadful expectation lay, Soon to be slaves, uncertain who should sway:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy seas in delicate haze Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place;... And where they are, shall other seas in turn Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »