The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts, and the Force of ReligionT. Bedlington, 1826 - 288 من الصفحات |
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... flame of battle ? Is it not treason to the soul immortal , Her foes in arms , eternity the prize ? Will toys amuse when medicines cannot cure ? When spirits ebb , when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose , and lessen in our sight ...
... flame of battle ? Is it not treason to the soul immortal , Her foes in arms , eternity the prize ? Will toys amuse when medicines cannot cure ? When spirits ebb , when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose , and lessen in our sight ...
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... flame , To gain his goal , to reach his ancient rest , And join anew Eternity , his sire ; In his immutability to nest , 219 When worlds , that count his circles ncw , unhinged , ( Fate the loud signal sounding ) headlong rush To ...
... flame , To gain his goal , to reach his ancient rest , And join anew Eternity , his sire ; In his immutability to nest , 219 When worlds , that count his circles ncw , unhinged , ( Fate the loud signal sounding ) headlong rush To ...
الصفحة 32
... flame Hearts melt , but melt like ice , soon harder froze . True love strikes root in reason , passion's foe : Virtue alone entenders us for life ; 525 I wrong her much - entenders us for ever . Of Friendship's fairest fruits , the ...
... flame Hearts melt , but melt like ice , soon harder froze . True love strikes root in reason , passion's foe : Virtue alone entenders us for life ; 525 I wrong her much - entenders us for ever . Of Friendship's fairest fruits , the ...
الصفحة 34
... lamps , on highborn dust In vaults , thin courts of poor unflatter'd kings , Or at the midnight altar's hallow'd flame . It is religion to proceed : I pause- • 023 And enter , awed , the temple of my theme 34 THE COMPLAINT . N. II .
... lamps , on highborn dust In vaults , thin courts of poor unflatter'd kings , Or at the midnight altar's hallow'd flame . It is religion to proceed : I pause- • 023 And enter , awed , the temple of my theme 34 THE COMPLAINT . N. II .
الصفحة 36
... flame : Christians adore ! and infidels believe ! 685 As some tall tower , or lofty mountain's brow , Detains the Sun , illustrious , from its height , While rising vapours and descending shades , With damps and darkness , drown the ...
... flame : Christians adore ! and infidels believe ! 685 As some tall tower , or lofty mountain's brow , Detains the Sun , illustrious , from its height , While rising vapours and descending shades , With damps and darkness , drown the ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids bless'd blessings bliss blood divine boast bosom boundless breast call'd charms Creation crown dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust e'en earth endless eternal ethereal fair fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart Heaven hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light Lorenzo lustre man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa Nature Nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure praise pride proud rapture Reason Reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings storm sweet tempest thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth Twill virtue Virtue's wing wisdom wise wonder wretched Ye Stars
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الصفحة 15 - 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 10 - 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 16 - 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 - Tis not in Folly, not to scorn a fool; And scarce in human wisdom, to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage : when young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
الصفحة 9 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge...
الصفحة 5 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
الصفحة 22 - Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age ; Behold him, when past by ; what then is seen, But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast ! cry out on his career.
الصفحة 53 - Death is the crown of life : Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life: Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure; we fall, we rise, we reign! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost! This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
الصفحة 161 - Know'st thou the' importance of a soul immortal ? Behold this midnight glory : worlds on worlds ! Amazing pomp ; redouble this amaze ! Ten thousand add ; add twice ten thousand more ; Then weigh the whole ; one soul outweighs them all, And calls the' astonishing magnificence Of unintelligent creation poor.
الصفحة 15 - 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.