The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].Thomas Tegg, 1815 - 312 من الصفحات |
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... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel distress ...
... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel distress ...
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... eternal schemes , As we the fatal sisters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ! As ...
... eternal schemes , As we the fatal sisters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ! As ...
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... terms on which he sees the light : He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe.Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , THE ...
... terms on which he sees the light : He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe.Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , THE ...
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... eternal night , Where such expedients fail ? O treach'rous Conscience ! while she seems to sleep On rose and myrtle , lull'd with syren song ; While she seems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein ...
... eternal night , Where such expedients fail ? O treach'rous Conscience ! while she seems to sleep On rose and myrtle , lull'd with syren song ; While she seems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein ...
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... eternal night ? A night , that glooms us in the noon - tide ray , And wraps our thought , at banquets , in the shiroud . Life's little stage is a small eminence , luch - high the grave above ; that home of man , Where dwells the ...
... eternal night ? A night , that glooms us in the noon - tide ray , And wraps our thought , at banquets , in the shiroud . Life's little stage is a small eminence , luch - high the grave above ; that home of man , Where dwells the ...
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ambition angels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast book of Job boundless call'd canst chimæra creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight deny'd divine dost dread dust EARL OF LITCHFIELD earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious infidels know'st 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 pain passion peace pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars storm thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb tremble triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester college wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars
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الصفحة 3 - 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?
الصفحة 3 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
الصفحة 13 - 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. 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 : Even with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.
الصفحة 6 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at every breeze.
الصفحة 4 - 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 ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy!
الصفحة 288 - When tired with vain rotations of the day, Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn ; Fresh we spin on, till sickness clogs our wheels, Or death quite breaks the spring, and motion ends.
الصفحة 1 - 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. I wake, emerging from a sea of dreams Tumultuous; where my wreck'd, desponding thought, From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove, her helm of reason lost.
الصفحة 54 - 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 4 - This is the desert, this the solitude : How populous, how vital, is the grave ! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom : The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed...
الصفحة 247 - One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine ; And light us deep into the Deity ; How boundless in magnificence and might! O what a confluence of ethereal fires, From urns unnumber'd, down the steep of heaven, Streams to a point, and centres in my sight! Nor tarries there; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts ; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.