The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalitySage & Thompson, no. 149 Pearl-street, L. Nichols, print., 1805 - 258 σελίδες |
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... grave , and inter her privately with his own hands . * I take the liberty of inserting here a passage from a letter written by Mr. W. Taylor , from Montpellier , to his sister , Mrs. Mouncher , in the preceding year 1789 , which may be ...
... grave , and inter her privately with his own hands . * I take the liberty of inserting here a passage from a letter written by Mr. W. Taylor , from Montpellier , to his sister , Mrs. Mouncher , in the preceding year 1789 , which may be ...
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... grave . The man , through a private door , admitted the Doctor at midnight , bringing his beloved daughter , wrap ped up in a sheet , upon his shoulder : he laid her in the hole , sat down , and ( as the man expressed it ) ' rained ...
... grave . The man , through a private door , admitted the Doctor at midnight , bringing his beloved daughter , wrap ped up in a sheet , upon his shoulder : he laid her in the hole , sat down , and ( as the man expressed it ) ' rained ...
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... grave , even so late as 1758 ; but none were then conferred . It has however been asserted that he had a pension of 2001 . a year from government , conferred under the auspices of Walpole . At last , when he was full fourscore , the ...
... grave , even so late as 1758 ; but none were then conferred . It has however been asserted that he had a pension of 2001 . a year from government , conferred under the auspices of Walpole . At last , when he was full fourscore , the ...
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... grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams Tumultuous ; where my wreck'd desponding thought , From wave to wave of fancy'd misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost : Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A ...
... grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams Tumultuous ; where my wreck'd desponding thought , From wave to wave of fancy'd misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost : Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A ...
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... grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? — THOU ! Who didst put to flight Primæval silence , when the morning stars Exulting , shouted o'er the rising ball ...
... grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? — THOU ! Who didst put to flight Primæval silence , when the morning stars Exulting , shouted o'er the rising ball ...
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æther ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd charms creation dæmons dark death Deity delight deny'd divine dost dread dust EARL OF LITCHFIELD earth endless eternal ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heaven hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure praise pride proud reason reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings strange thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester College wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars
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Σελίδα 22 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Σελίδα 14 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve— That column of true majesty in man...
Σελίδα 13 - Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the grave.
Σελίδα 23 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Σελίδα 23 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Σελίδα 59 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies :" And " Dust to dust
Σελίδα 232 - What am I ? and from whence ? — I nothing know, But that I am; and, since I am, conclude Something eternal : had there e'er been nought, Nought still had been : eternal there must be.
Σελίδα 59 - The world's a stately bark, on dang'rous seas, With pleasure seen, but boarded at our peril; Here, on a single plank, thrown safe ashore, I hear the tumult of the distant throng, As that of seas remote, or dying storms : And meditate on scenes, more silent still ; Pursue my theme, and fight the Fear of Death.
Σελίδα 113 - J on Alps ; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself: Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall.
Σελίδα 55 - tis our harvest, rich And ripe : what though the sickle, sometimes keen, Just scars us as we reap the golden grain; More than thy balm, O Gilead, heals the wound.