The Complaint, Or, Night-thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JobA. Mallard, 1779 - 294 páginas |
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... fuch ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From diff'rent natures marvelously mixt , Connexion exquifite of diftant worlds ! Diftinguifh'd link in being's endless chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal ...
... fuch ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From diff'rent natures marvelously mixt , Connexion exquifite of diftant worlds ! Diftinguifh'd link in being's endless chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal ...
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... fuch mighty plunder , why exhauft Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Infatiate archer ! could not one fuffice ? Thy fhaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was flain ; And thrice , ere thrice ...
... fuch mighty plunder , why exhauft Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Infatiate archer ! could not one fuffice ? Thy fhaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was flain ; And thrice , ere thrice ...
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... fuch alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue save ; Difeafe invades the chafteft temperance ; And punishment the guiltlefs ; and alarm , Through thickeft fhades , purfues the fond of peace . Man's caution often into danger turns ...
... fuch alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue save ; Difeafe invades the chafteft temperance ; And punishment the guiltlefs ; and alarm , Through thickeft fhades , purfues the fond of peace . Man's caution often into danger turns ...
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... fuch by heav'n defign'd ; He that has none , must make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments ; and without employ The foul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To fouls most adverse ; action all their joy . Here , then , the riddle ...
... fuch by heav'n defign'd ; He that has none , must make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments ; and without employ The foul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To fouls most adverse ; action all their joy . Here , then , the riddle ...
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... fuch expedients fail ? O treach'rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On rofe and myrtle , lull'd with fyren fong ; While the feems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the flacken'd rein , And give us up to ...
... fuch expedients fail ? O treach'rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On rofe and myrtle , lull'd with fyren fong ; While the feems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the flacken'd rein , And give us up to ...
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