Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityWillaim Tegg, 1868 - 301 páginas |
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... cause to sigh . A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , deserts , frozen seas , and burning sands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , stings , and death Such is earth's melancholy map ...
... cause to sigh . A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , deserts , frozen seas , and burning sands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , stings , and death Such is earth's melancholy map ...
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... cause and consequence , And make us tremble , weigh'd with our desert ; Awe nature's tumults , and chastise her joys , Lest while we clasp , we kill them ; nay , invert To worse than simple misery their charms . Revolted joys , like ...
... cause and consequence , And make us tremble , weigh'd with our desert ; Awe nature's tumults , and chastise her joys , Lest while we clasp , we kill them ; nay , invert To worse than simple misery their charms . Revolted joys , like ...
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... cause ; a warning was denied : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ; As sudden , though for years admonish'd home ! Of human ills the last extreme beware ; Beware , Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death . How dreadful that deliberate surprise ...
... cause ; a warning was denied : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ; As sudden , though for years admonish'd home ! Of human ills the last extreme beware ; Beware , Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death . How dreadful that deliberate surprise ...
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... cause and cure explore . Not short Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard , Nature ; men are prodigals . We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare existence ...
... cause and cure explore . Not short Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard , Nature ; men are prodigals . We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare existence ...
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... cause and cure are seen ! see next Time's nature , origin , importance , speed ; And thy great gain from urging his career.— All - sensual man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is 20 THE COMPLAINT .
... cause and cure are seen ! see next Time's nature , origin , importance , speed ; And thy great gain from urging his career.— All - sensual man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is 20 THE COMPLAINT .
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd charms creation dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust E'en earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fair fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure poison'd pow'r praise pride proud reason Reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere stars stings strange sublunary thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars