Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & ImmortalityH.G. Hale & Company, 1810 - 254 páginas |
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... deep reflections and striking allusions , a wilder- ness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour . " It must be allowed , however , that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with ...
... deep reflections and striking allusions , a wilder- ness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour . " It must be allowed , however , that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with ...
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... deep troubles toss , Loud sorrows howl envenom'd passions bite , Rav'nous calamities our vitals seize , And threat'ning Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who sorrow for myself ? In age , in infancy , from other's aid Is all ...
... deep troubles toss , Loud sorrows howl envenom'd passions bite , Rav'nous calamities our vitals seize , And threat'ning Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who sorrow for myself ? In age , in infancy , from other's aid Is all ...
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... Deep silence , " Where eternity begins . " By Nature's law , what may be , may be now ; There's no prerogative in human hours , In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to ...
... Deep silence , " Where eternity begins . " By Nature's law , what may be , may be now ; There's no prerogative in human hours , In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to ...
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... deep , which nothing disembogues ! And , dying , they bequeath'd thee small renown . The rest are on the wing : how fleet their flight ! Already has the fatal train took fire ; A moment , and the world's blown up to thee ; The sun is ...
... deep , which nothing disembogues ! And , dying , they bequeath'd thee small renown . The rest are on the wing : how fleet their flight ! Already has the fatal train took fire ; A moment , and the world's blown up to thee ; The sun is ...
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... deep . In midnight darkness , whisper'd my last sigh . I whisper'd what should echo thro ' their realms : N or writ , her name , whose tomb should pierce the skies . Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes , While Nature's ...
... deep . In midnight darkness , whisper'd my last sigh . I whisper'd what should echo thro ' their realms : N or writ , her name , whose tomb should pierce the skies . Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes , While Nature's ...
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ambition angels archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd canst charms creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight deny'd divine dost dread dust Earl of LITCHFIELD earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passions peace pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere stars stings strange thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester College wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched
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Página 17 - And that through every stage : when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool : Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves ; and re-resolves ; then dies the same.
Página 16 - tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 88 - Each moment on the former shuts the grave. While man is growing, life is in decrease ; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
Página 17 - All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own their future selves applaud; How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails; That lodged in Fate's to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they postpone.
Página 50 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, T 3 The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Página 7 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 11 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at every breeze.
Página 12 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 38 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young , And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay...
Página 32 - Can gold gain friendship? Impudence of hope! As well mere man an angel might beget. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. Lorenzo ! pride repress ; nor hope to find A friend but what has found a. friend in thee. All like the purchase ; few the price will pay; And this makes friends such miracles below.