The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalitySage & Thompson, no. 149 Pearl-street, L. Nichols, print., 1805 - 258 من الصفحات |
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... future misery is too awful for poetic enlarge ment , and makes the piece too terrible to be read with pleasure ; while the attempt to particularize the solemnities of judgment , lowers their sublimity , and makes some parts of the ...
... future misery is too awful for poetic enlarge ment , and makes the piece too terrible to be read with pleasure ; while the attempt to particularize the solemnities of judgment , lowers their sublimity , and makes some parts of the ...
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... future life ; and this turn of mind mixed itself even with his improvements in gardening : he had , for instance , an alcove , with a bench so well painted in it , that at a distance it seemed to be real ; but upon a nearer approach the ...
... future life ; and this turn of mind mixed itself even with his improvements in gardening : he had , for instance , an alcove , with a bench so well painted in it , that at a distance it seemed to be real ; but upon a nearer approach the ...
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... future embryo , slumb'ring in his sire . 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 ...
... future embryo , slumb'ring in his sire . 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 ...
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... future selves applauds . 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 : ' Tis not in ...
... future selves applauds . 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 : ' Tis not in ...
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... future peace ! And think'st thou still thou canst be wise too soon ? But why on time so lavish is my song ? On this great theme kind Nature keeps a school , To teach her sons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each ...
... future peace ! And think'st thou still thou canst be wise too soon ? But why on time so lavish is my song ? On this great theme kind Nature keeps a school , To teach her sons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each ...
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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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.