The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: Also, The Consolation; Night 9th and Last With the Life of the AuthorRice, 1800 |
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... still befriend . - What themes ? Time's wondrous price , Death , friendship , and PHILANDER's final foene : Themes meet for man ! and meet at every hour , But most at this , at midnight , ever clad In Death's own fables ; filent as his ...
... still befriend . - What themes ? Time's wondrous price , Death , friendship , and PHILANDER's final foene : Themes meet for man ! and meet at every hour , But most at this , at midnight , ever clad In Death's own fables ; filent as his ...
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... still softer , or be chid ; And other worlds fend odours , fauce , and fong , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! с ye LCRENZOS of our age ! who deem One moment unamus'd , a mifery Not made for feeble man ! who call ...
... still softer , or be chid ; And other worlds fend odours , fauce , and fong , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! с ye LCRENZOS of our age ! who deem One moment unamus'd , a mifery Not made for feeble man ! who call ...
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... Still more a goddess by the change . Are there demuring wits , who dare dispute This revolution in the world infpir'd ? Ye train Pierian ! to the lunar fphere , In filent hour , address your ardent call For aid immortal ; lefs her ...
... Still more a goddess by the change . Are there demuring wits , who dare dispute This revolution in the world infpir'd ? Ye train Pierian ! to the lunar fphere , In filent hour , address your ardent call For aid immortal ; lefs her ...
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... Still melting there , and with voluptuous pain ( 0 to forget her ! ) thrilling through my heart ! Song , beauty , youth , love , virtue , joy ! this group Of bright ideas , flow'rs of paradife , As yet unforfeit ! in one blaze we bind ...
... Still melting there , and with voluptuous pain ( 0 to forget her ! ) thrilling through my heart ! Song , beauty , youth , love , virtue , joy ! this group Of bright ideas , flow'rs of paradife , As yet unforfeit ! in one blaze we bind ...
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... Still - ftreaming thoroughfares of dull debauch ! Trembling each gulph , left Death should snatch the bowl . Such , of our fine ones , is the wifh refin'd ! So would they have it : Elegant defire ! Why not invite the bellowing ftalls ...
... Still - ftreaming thoroughfares of dull debauch ! Trembling each gulph , left Death should snatch the bowl . Such , of our fine ones , is the wifh refin'd ! So would they have it : Elegant defire ! Why not invite the bellowing ftalls ...
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æther ambition angels art thou Becauſe beneath bleffings bleft blifs bofom boundleſs breaft caufe cauſe dark darkneſs death defcend Deity divine doft dread duft earth endleſs eternal ev'ry facred fafe fame fate fcene feems feen fenfe fhades fhall fhines fhocking fhould figh fight fing firft fkies fleeps fmile foar foft fome fong fons fool foon foul fpirit ftars ftill ftorm ftrike ftrong fuch fure glory grave guilt happineſs heart Heav'n himſelf hour human illuftrious immortal juft laft lefs life's loft LORENZO luftre man's mankind moft mortal moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffion pain peace pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe prefent pride proud Reafon rife ſcene ſhall ſkies ſphere ſtars ſtill thee thefe theme themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thought thouſand thro throne truth univerfal vaft virtue whofe wifdom wife wing worfe wretched
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Страница 12 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of 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.
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Страница 209 - Vain hope ! it is too late! Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and despair!
Страница 52 - And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
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Страница 110 - Tis a proud mendicant: it boasts and begs; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity.
Страница 69 - Talk they of morals ! O thou bleeding Love ! Thou maker of new morals to mankind ! The grand morality is love of Thee.
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