The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityJohnson and Warner, 1816 - 351 من الصفحات |
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... arising from it , makes the bulk of the poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned , did naturally pour these moral re- flections on the thought of the writer . ADVERTISEMENT . THIS edition of the NIGHT THOUGHTS , it.
... arising from it , makes the bulk of the poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned , did naturally pour these moral re- flections on the thought of the writer . ADVERTISEMENT . THIS edition of the NIGHT THOUGHTS , it.
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... Thoughts , " says the Doctor , speaking of our author , " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry , variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions ; a wil- derness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy ...
... Thoughts , " says the Doctor , speaking of our author , " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry , variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions ; a wil- derness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy ...
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... Thoughts , to suppose he had taken his leave of terrestrial things , in the alarming year 1745 , he could not ... thought the occasion might sanctify the means ; and not thinking so unfavourably of the stage as other good men have ...
... Thoughts , to suppose he had taken his leave of terrestrial things , in the alarming year 1745 , he could not ... thought the occasion might sanctify the means ; and not thinking so unfavourably of the stage as other good men have ...
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... pension of 2001. a year from government , conferred under the auspices of Walpole . At last , when he was full fourscore , the author of the Night Thoughts , 22 LIFE OF " Who thought e'en gold itself might DR . YOUNG .
... pension of 2001. a year from government , conferred under the auspices of Walpole . At last , when he was full fourscore , the author of the Night Thoughts , 22 LIFE OF " Who thought e'en gold itself might DR . YOUNG .
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ambition angels art thou awful beam beneath bids bless'd 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 EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame flow'r fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart Heav'n Henry Pelham hope hour human illustrious Infidel life's light live LORENZO lustre man's mankind midnight mind mortal NARCISSA Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passion peace PHILANDER pleasure pow'r praise pride proud racters reason rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars strange thee theme thine thought thro throne tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester College wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars
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الصفحة 38 - 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 27 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
الصفحة 38 - 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. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.
الصفحة 29 - This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
الصفحة 27 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
الصفحة 31 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
الصفحة 81 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave : The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
الصفحة 25 - TIRED 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.
الصفحة 56 - Teaching, we learn ; and, giving, we retain The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot. Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; Brightens, for ornament ; and whets, for use.
الصفحة 259 - Their no joys end where his full feast begins ; His joys create, theirs murder, future bliss. To triumph in existence his alone ; And his alone triumphantly to think His true existence is not yet begun. His glorious course was, yesterday, complete ; Death then was welcome ; yet life still is sweet.