The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality. To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JobJ. and F. Rivington, 1773 - 320 страница |
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... Fate . Night , fable Goddess ! from her Ebon Throne , In rayless Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darkness , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object finds ...
... Fate . Night , fable Goddess ! from her Ebon Throne , In rayless Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darkness , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object finds ...
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... Fate . Night , fable Goddess ! from her Ebon Throne , In rayless Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darkness , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object finds ...
... Fate . Night , fable Goddess ! from her Ebon Throne , In rayless Majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden Sceptre o'er a flumb'ring World . Silence , how dead ! and Darkness , how profound ! Nor Eye , nor lift'ning Ear , an Object finds ...
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... Fate . Each Moment has its Sickle , emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe , whofe ample Sweep Strikes Empires from the Root ; each Moment plays His little Weapon in the narrower Sphere Of sweet domeftic Comfort , and cuts down The fairest ...
... Fate . Each Moment has its Sickle , emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe , whofe ample Sweep Strikes Empires from the Root ; each Moment plays His little Weapon in the narrower Sphere Of sweet domeftic Comfort , and cuts down The fairest ...
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... Fate ; Sweet Comfort's blafted Clusters I lament ; I tremble at the Bleffings once fo dear ; And ev'ry Pleasure pains me to the Heart . Yet why complain ? or why complain for One ? Hangs out the Sun his Luftre but for me , The fingle ...
... Fate ; Sweet Comfort's blafted Clusters I lament ; I tremble at the Bleffings once fo dear ; And ev'ry Pleasure pains me to the Heart . Yet why complain ? or why complain for One ? Hangs out the Sun his Luftre but for me , The fingle ...
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... Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who forrow for myself ? In Age , in Infancy , from others Aid Is all our Hope ; to teach us to be kind . That , Nature's firft , laft Leffon to Mankind ; The felfish Heart deferves the Pain ...
... Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who forrow for myself ? In Age , in Infancy , from others Aid Is all our Hope ; to teach us to be kind . That , Nature's firft , laft Leffon to Mankind ; The felfish Heart deferves the Pain ...
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Æther againſt Ambition Angels art thou Becauſe beneath Bleffings bleft Blifs Bliſs Bofom Book of Job boundleſs Caufe Cauſe Chimæras dark Darkneſs Death defcend Deity diftant Divine Doft dreadful Duft Earth endleſs Eternity Ev'n ev'ry facred Fate feems feen fhall fhines fhould fink Flame fleeps fmile foft fome foon Friend ftill ftrike ftrong fuch fure Glory Grave Guilt Happineſs Heart Heav'n Himſelf Hour human illuftrious Immortal infpire juft laft lefs Life's loft LORENZO Love Luftre Man's Mankind moft mortal moſt muft Nature Nature's ne'er Night nought Numbers o'er Paffion paft Pain Peace Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe prefent Pride proud Reafon Reft rife riſe Scene Senfe ſhall Skies Song Soul ſpeak Sphere Stars ſtill thee Thefe Theme Themſelves theſe Thine thofe thoſe Thought thouſand thro Throne Triumph Truth univerfal vaft Virtue whofe Wife Wing Wiſdom Wiſh World wretched
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Страница 3 - 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 3 - 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 3 - 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. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.
Страница 11 - Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms, from the great days of Heaven, From old Eternity's mysterious orb, Was Time cut off, and cast beneath the skies ; The skies, which watch him in his new abode, Measuring his motions by revolving spheres; That horologe machinery divine.
Страница 59 - ... ?—Thou, my all! My theme, my inspiration, and my crown ! My strength in age ! my rise in low estate ! My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth !—my world ! My light in darkness! and my life in death ! My boast through time!
Страница 16 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Страница 43 - These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Страница 34 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth Our rugged pass to death ; to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence Nature throws Cross our obstructed way, and thus to make Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm.
Страница 6 - Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay No moment, but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth ask death-beds ; they can tell.