The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts, المجلد 3F. and C. Rivington, 1802 - 383 من الصفحات |
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... true honour to man- kind . The soul's immortality has been the favourite theme with the serious of all ages . Nor is it strange ; it is a subject by far the most interesting , and important , that can enter the mind of man . Of highest ...
... true honour to man- kind . The soul's immortality has been the favourite theme with the serious of all ages . Nor is it strange ; it is a subject by far the most interesting , and important , that can enter the mind of man . Of highest ...
الصفحة 4
... was angry ; and angry at his last hour ; and angry with his friends ; and angry for what deserv'd ac- knowledgment ; and for a right and tender instance of true friendship towards him . Is not this surprising ? What PREFACE .
... was angry ; and angry at his last hour ; and angry with his friends ; and angry for what deserv'd ac- knowledgment ; and for a right and tender instance of true friendship towards him . Is not this surprising ? What PREFACE .
الصفحة 6
... true free - thinking is . The necessary pu- nishment of the false . Man's ruin is from himself . An infidel ac- cuses himself of guilt , and hypocrisy ; and that of the worst sort . His obligation to Christians - What danger he incurs ...
... true free - thinking is . The necessary pu- nishment of the false . Man's ruin is from himself . An infidel ac- cuses himself of guilt , and hypocrisy ; and that of the worst sort . His obligation to Christians - What danger he incurs ...
الصفحة 12
... true self - interest pursu'd : What true self - interest of quite - mortal man ? To close with all that makes him happy here . If vice ( as sometimes ) is our friend on earth , Then vice is virtue ; ' tis our sov'reign good . In self ...
... true self - interest pursu'd : What true self - interest of quite - mortal man ? To close with all that makes him happy here . If vice ( as sometimes ) is our friend on earth , Then vice is virtue ; ' tis our sov'reign good . In self ...
الصفحة 13
... true ; or , man survives the grave . Or man survives the grave , or own , LORENZO , Thy boast supreme , a wild absurdity . Dauntless thy spirit ; cowards are thy scorn , Grant man immortal , and thy scorn is just . The man immortal ...
... true ; or , man survives the grave . Or man survives the grave , or own , LORENZO , Thy boast supreme , a wild absurdity . Dauntless thy spirit ; cowards are thy scorn , Grant man immortal , and thy scorn is just . The man immortal ...
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adore Æther ambition angels art thou blessed blest bliss boast boundless brute canst Centaurs chimæra CHIRON Christian cloud conscience creation dæmons dark death deism deists DEITY delight despair Dignity divine dost dread dust earth Epicurus eternal Eusebius ev'ry faith fall fate fear flames folly fool give glorious glory grandeur grave guilt happiness heart heaven hell hope human immortal indulgence infidelity less light live Lord Lord Bolingbroke LORENZO LUCIFER man's mankind mercy mighty mind moral nature nature's ne'er never night nought o'er Omnipotence pain passions peace pleasure praise pride proud racter reason rise ruin scene Scrip sense shew shine sight skies smile Sophronius soul speak spirit stars strange strike thee thine things thought thro throne triumph truth vice VIRG virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars
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الصفحة 92 - Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw, What nothing less than angel can exceed, A man on earth devoted to the skies; Like ships in seas, while in, above the world. With aspect mild, and elevated eye, Behold him seated on a mount serene, Above the fogs of sense, and passion's storm ; All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
الصفحة 93 - An empire in his balance weighs a grain. They things terrestrial worship as divine : His hopes immortal blow them by as dust, That dims his sight, and shortens his survey, Which longs in infinite to lose all bound. Titles and honours (if they prove his fate) He lays aside to find his dignity; No dignity they find in aught besides.
الصفحة 201 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
الصفحة 360 - Praise him, all ye angels of his : praise him, all his host. Praise him, sun and moon : praise him, all ye stars and light.
الصفحة 126 - Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form ; and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train.
الصفحة 141 - The soul of man was made to walk the skies, Delightful outlet of her prison here ! There, disencumber'd from her chains, the ties Of toys terrestrial, she can rove at large ; There freely can respire, dilate, extend, In full proportion let loose all her powers, And, undeluded, grasp at something great. Nor as a stranger does she wander there, But, wonderful herself, through wonder strays ; Contemplating their grandeur, finds her own ; Dives deep in their economy divine, Sits high in judgment on their...
الصفحة 149 - t were not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in such an ocean wide • Of deep astonishment ? where depth, height, breadth, Are lost in their extremes ; and where to count The thick-sown glories in this field of fire, Perhaps a seraph's computation fails.
الصفحة 113 - At the destined hour, By the loud trumpet summon'd to the charge, See, all the formidable sons of fire, Eruptions, earthquakes, comets, lightnings play Their various engines ; all at once disgorge Their blazing magazines ; and take, by storm, This poor terrestrial citadel of man. Amazing period! when each mountain-height Out-burns Vesuvius ; rocks eternal pour Their melted mass, as rivers once they pour'd ; Stars rash; and final ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation...
الصفحة 114 - From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel ; from nitrous grain, the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more ! The day is broke, which never more shall close J Above, around, beneath, amazement all ! Terror and glory join'd in their extremes ! Our GOD in grandeur, and our world on fire...
الصفحة 115 - Heaven opens in their bosoms : but how rare, Ah me ! that magnanimity, how rare ! What hero, like the man who stands himself; Who dares to meet his naked heart alone ; Who hears, intrepid, the full charge it brings, Resolv'd to silence future murmurs there ? The coward flies- and, flying, is undone.