The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorParker amd Bliss, 1812 - 273 страница |
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... once ; and make a refuge of the grave : How groaning hospitals eject their dead ! What numbers groan for fad admiffion there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high fed , Solicit the cold hand of charity ! To fhock us more , solicit ...
... once ; and make a refuge of the grave : How groaning hospitals eject their dead ! What numbers groan for fad admiffion there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high fed , Solicit the cold hand of charity ! To fhock us more , solicit ...
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... to die ? Thou fay't I preach , Lorenzo ! ' tis confest . What if , for once , I preach thee quite awake ? · Who wants amusement in the flame of battle ? Is it not treafon to the soul immortal , Her NIGHT THE SECOND . 27.
... to die ? Thou fay't I preach , Lorenzo ! ' tis confest . What if , for once , I preach thee quite awake ? · Who wants amusement in the flame of battle ? Is it not treafon to the soul immortal , Her NIGHT THE SECOND . 27.
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... once ; this leaves In 29 no trifle , and no blank in time : This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to raise A royal tribute from the pooreft hours ...
... once ; this leaves In 29 no trifle , and no blank in time : This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to raise A royal tribute from the pooreft hours ...
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... which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time ns'd . The man who confecrates his hours By vigorous effort , and an honest aim , At once he draws the fting of life and death ; He walks with nature ; and her paths are peace 30 THE COMPLAINT .
... which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time ns'd . The man who confecrates his hours By vigorous effort , and an honest aim , At once he draws the fting of life and death ; He walks with nature ; and her paths are peace 30 THE COMPLAINT .
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... Once more I wake ; and at the destin'd hour , Punctual as lovers to the moment fworn , I keep my affignation with my woe . O ! loft to virtue , loft to manly thought , Loft to the noble fallies of the foul ! Who think it folitude to be ...
... Once more I wake ; and at the destin'd hour , Punctual as lovers to the moment fworn , I keep my affignation with my woe . O ! loft to virtue , loft to manly thought , Loft to the noble fallies of the foul ! Who think it folitude to be ...
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againſt ambition angels art thou becauſe beneath beſt bleffings bleft blifs boaſt bofom boundleſs caufe cauſe dæmons darkneſs death defcend Deity deſpair diftant divine Doft dread duft earth endleſs eternal ev'ry facred fafe fame fate fcenes feems feen fenfe fhades fhall fhines fhould figh fight firſt fkies fleeps fmiles foar foft fome fong fons fool foon foul fpirit ftars ftill ftrike ftrong fuch fure glory grave guilt happineſs heart heav'n himſelf human illuftrious immortal juft juſt laft lefs life's loft Lorenzo man's mankind moft mortal moſt muſt nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffion pain paſt peace pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe prefent pride proud reafon rife ſcene ſhall ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſtars ſtill thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thought thouſand thro throne truth univerfal vaft virtue whofe whoſe wife wing wiſdom wiſh worfe wretched
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Страница 22 - 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 13 - I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the grave. I wake, emerging from a sea. of dreams Tumultuous; where my wreck'd, desponding thought, From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove, her helm of reason lost.
Страница 23 - 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.
Страница 178 - Ocean ! thou dreadful and tumultuous home Of dangers, at eternal war with man ! Death's capital, where most he domineers...
Страница 23 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' 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.
Страница 18 - More mortal than the common births of fate. Each Moment has its sickle, emulous, Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root ; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss.
Страница 14 - Lead it through various scenes of life and death, And from each scene the noblest truths inspire. Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason, reason; my best will...
Страница 37 - To gentle life's descent We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. We take fair days in winter, for the spring; And turn our blessings into bane.
Страница 73 - Though yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold ? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.
Страница 21 - Is heaven tremendous in its frowns ? Most sure; And in its favours formidable too: Its favours here are trials, not rewards; A call to duty, not discharge from care ; And should alarm us full as much as woes...