Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityJ. & F. Rivington, T. Longman, E. & C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, T. Cadell & W. Otridge, 1787 - 347 páginas |
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... Fate . Night , fable Goddefs ! from her Ebon Throne , In raylefs Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre , o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darknefs , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object ...
... Fate . Night , fable Goddefs ! from her Ebon Throne , In raylefs Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre , o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darknefs , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object ...
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... Fate . Each Moment has its Sickle , emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe , whofe ample Sweep Strikes Empires from the Root ; each Moment plays 195 His little Weapon in the narrower Sphere Of fweet domeftic Comfort , and cuts down The ...
... Fate . Each Moment has its Sickle , emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe , whofe ample Sweep Strikes Empires from the Root ; each Moment plays 195 His little Weapon in the narrower Sphere Of fweet domeftic Comfort , and cuts down The ...
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... Fate ; Sweet Comfort's blafted Clufters I lament ; I tremble at the Bleffings once fo dear ; And ev'ry Pleasure pains me to the Heart . 230 Yet why Complain ? or why complain for One ? Hangs out the Sun his Luftre but for me , The ...
... Fate ; Sweet Comfort's blafted Clufters I lament ; I tremble at the Bleffings once fo dear ; And ev'ry Pleasure pains me to the Heart . 230 Yet why Complain ? or why complain for One ? Hangs out the Sun his Luftre but for me , The ...
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... Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who forrow for myself ? In Age , in Infancy , from others Aid Is all our Hope ' ; to teach us to be kind . That , Nature's firft , laft Leffon to Mankind ; The felfish Heart deferves the Pain ...
... Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who forrow for myself ? In Age , in Infancy , from others Aid Is all our Hope ' ; to teach us to be kind . That , Nature's firft , laft Leffon to Mankind ; The felfish Heart deferves the Pain ...
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... Fate's inviolable Oath is fworn Deep Silence , " Where Eternity begins . " By Nature's Law , what may be , may be now ; There's no Prerogative in human Hours . 366 370 In human Hearts what bolder Thought can rife , Than Man's ...
... Fate's inviolable Oath is fworn Deep Silence , " Where Eternity begins . " By Nature's Law , what may be , may be now ; There's no Prerogative in human Hours . 366 370 In human Hearts what bolder Thought can rife , Than Man's ...
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Æther againſt Ambition Angels art thou Becauſe beneath Bleffings bleft Blifs Bliſs Bofom Breaft caft Caufe Cauſe dark Darkneſs Death defcend Deity diftant divine Doft dreadful Duft Earth endleſs Eternity Ev'n ev'ry facred fame Fate feen fhall fhine fhould fink Flame fleeps fmiles foar foft fome Fool foon Friend ftill ftrike ftrong fuch fure Glory Grave Guilt Happineſs Heart Heav'n himſelf Hope Hour human illuftrious Immortal Juft laft lefs Life's Light loft LORENZO Love Luftre Man's Mankind moft mortal moſt muft Nature Nature's ne'er Night nought Numbers o'er Paffion paft Pain Peace Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe prefent Pride proud Reafon Reft rife riſe Scene Senfe ſhall Skies Song Soul Sphere Stars ſtill thee Thefe Theme theſe Thine thofe thoſe Thought thouſand thro Throne Tomb Triumph Truth vaft Virtue whofe Wife Wing Wiſdom Wiſh worfe World wretched