The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JobR. Chapman and A. Duncan, 1775 - 388 من الصفحات |
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... Poor penfioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful , is man ? How paffing wonder HE , who made him fuch ? Who center'd in our make fuch ftrange extremes ? From ...
... Poor penfioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful , is man ? How paffing wonder HE , who made him fuch ? Who center'd in our make fuch ftrange extremes ? From ...
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... poor , pale piece Of out - caft earth , in darknefs ! what a change From yesterday ! Thy darling hope fo near , ( Long - labour'd prize ! ) O how ambition flush'd Thy glowing cheek ! ambition truly great , Of virtuous praife . Death's ...
... poor , pale piece Of out - caft earth , in darknefs ! what a change From yesterday ! Thy darling hope fo near , ( Long - labour'd prize ! ) O how ambition flush'd Thy glowing cheek ! ambition truly great , Of virtuous praife . Death's ...
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... in human wifdom to do more . All promife is poor dilatory man , And that through every ftage : when young , indeed , In full content we fometimes nobly reft , Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish , As duteous 16 THE COMPLAINT :
... in human wifdom to do more . All promife is poor dilatory man , And that through every ftage : when young , indeed , In full content we fometimes nobly reft , Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish , As duteous 16 THE COMPLAINT :
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... poor ; Part with it as with money , fparing ; pay No moment , but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth , afk death - beds ; they can tell , Part with it as with life , reluctant ; big With holy hope of nobler time to come ...
... poor ; Part with it as with money , fparing ; pay No moment , but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth , afk death - beds ; they can tell , Part with it as with life , reluctant ; big With holy hope of nobler time to come ...
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... poor shatter'd bark , by sudden storm Thrown off to fea , and foon to perish there ) Will toys amufe ? No : thrones will then be toys , And earth and fkies feem duft upon the fcale . Redeem we time ? its lofs we dearly buy . What pleads ...
... poor shatter'd bark , by sudden storm Thrown off to fea , and foon to perish there ) Will toys amufe ? No : thrones will then be toys , And earth and fkies feem duft upon the fcale . Redeem we time ? its lofs we dearly buy . What pleads ...
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الصفحة 16 - 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.
الصفحة 17 - 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.
الصفحة 16 - 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.
الصفحة 5 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
الصفحة 33 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
الصفحة 85 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
الصفحة 17 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
الصفحة 16 - How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodg'd in their own hands is Folly's vails ; That lodg'd in Fate's to wisdom they consign ; The thing they can't but purpose they postpone.
الصفحة 103 - Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature suffers in the crowd, Nor touches on the world, without a stain : The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn.
الصفحة 7 - Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man. Yet man, fool man ! here buries all his thoughts ; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh.