 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...WHERE then shall Hope and Fear their objects find 1 Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant miud ? Must helpless man in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate 1 Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies ? Inquirer, cease... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Mi'.-it dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise; No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Inquirer, eease; petitions... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...Where, then, shall hope and fear their objects find! Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate 1 Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies * Inquirer, cease;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1857 - 348 pages
...rise, No cries invoke the mercy of the skies ? Inquirer, cease : petitions yet remain, Which Heaven may hear; nor deem religion vain: Still raise for good the supplicating voice, Bat leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice; Safe in His pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 464 pages
...life seem indifferent. I often repeat Johnson's lines, in his vanity of human wishes : — " Shall helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?" Your account of your young family pleases me much, wbilc I am at the same time struck with a strange... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - 276 pages
...him: Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? . . . Enquirer, cease, petitions yet remain, 71 Which heav'n may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...away."20 The image or image-cluster contributes to the climax of Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749): "Must helpless Man, in Ignorance sedate, / Roll darkling down the Torrent of his Fate?" (lines 345-6) ." The idea can be found even in light touches, as in Burns's image in "Tarn O'Shanter":... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...resist. Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? (Vanity of Human Wishes, 11. 343-46) "Torrent" is a revision for "current," and Johnson often uses... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 pages
...question: Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? (YJ 6: 107-8) From the perspective not only of all the evidence but also of the poem's manner of proceeding... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...rest. Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Inquirer, cease; petitions... | |
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Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? 
