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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... Happiness itself makes good her name ; Our very wishes give us not our wish ; How diftant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for which we doat , felicity ? The Smootheft course of nature has its pains , And trueft friends , thro ...
... Happiness itself makes good her name ; Our very wishes give us not our wish ; How diftant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for which we doat , felicity ? The Smootheft course of nature has its pains , And trueft friends , thro ...
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... happiness To thofe whofe thought can pierce beyond an hour ! O thou ! whate'er thou art , whose heart exults ! Wouldst thou I should congratulate thy fate ? I know thou wouldft ; thy pride demands it from me , Let thy pride pardon ...
... happiness To thofe whofe thought can pierce beyond an hour ! O thou ! whate'er thou art , whose heart exults ! Wouldst thou I should congratulate thy fate ? I know thou wouldft ; thy pride demands it from me , Let thy pride pardon ...
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... happiness ; beware All joys , but joys that never can expire ; Who builds on lefs than an immortal base , Fond as he feems , condemns his joys to death . Mine dy'd with thee , PHILANDER ! thy laft figh Diffolv'd the charm ; the ...
... happiness ; beware All joys , but joys that never can expire ; Who builds on lefs than an immortal base , Fond as he feems , condemns his joys to death . Mine dy'd with thee , PHILANDER ! thy laft figh Diffolv'd the charm ; the ...
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... happier clime explore . Art thou fo moor'd thou canst not difengage , Nor give thy thoughts a ply to future scenes ; Since by Life's paffing breath , blown up from earth , Light , as the Summer's duft , we take , in air , A moment's ...
... happier clime explore . Art thou fo moor'd thou canst not difengage , Nor give thy thoughts a ply to future scenes ; Since by Life's paffing breath , blown up from earth , Light , as the Summer's duft , we take , in air , A moment's ...
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... happiness ? That unobtain'd , than folly more a fool : A melancholy fool , without her bells : Friendship the means , and friendship richly gives The precious end , which makes our wisdom wife . Nature , in zeal for human amity , Denies ...
... happiness ? That unobtain'd , than folly more a fool : A melancholy fool , without her bells : Friendship the means , and friendship richly gives The precious end , which makes our wisdom wife . Nature , in zeal for human amity , Denies ...
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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 11 - 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.
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.
Страница 119 - tis revolution all ; All change ; no death. Day follows night ; and night The dying day ; stars rise, and set, and rise ; Earth takes th
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.
Страница 52 - Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And dust " to dust
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.
Страница 185 - Each branch of piety delight inspires ; Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next, O'er death's dark gulf, and all its horror hides...
Страница 199 - To know the world, not love her, is thy point ; She gives but little, nor that little, long. There is, I grant, a triumph of the...