Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,James Nichol, 1853 - 327 страница |
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... Peace , " occasioned by the posture of affairs in which the British fleet was then placed , and written in the character of a sailor . It is a mere tissue of sounding verbiage - or , as Hamlet hath it , " Words , words , words . " About ...
... Peace , " occasioned by the posture of affairs in which the British fleet was then placed , and written in the character of a sailor . It is a mere tissue of sounding verbiage - or , as Hamlet hath it , " Words , words , words . " About ...
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... peace was slain . " In 1736 , a daughter of his wife , by a former husband , died . This was Mrs Temple - the Narcissa of his great poem . Her disease was a lingering one . Young accompanied her to Lyons , where she died , and where her ...
... peace was slain . " In 1736 , a daughter of his wife , by a former husband , died . This was Mrs Temple - the Narcissa of his great poem . Her disease was a lingering one . Young accompanied her to Lyons , where she died , and where her ...
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... peace was slain ; And thrice , ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn . O Cynthia why so pale ? dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour ? grieve to see thy wheel เ 1 Thrice : ' alluding to the death of his wife , his daughter Mrs ...
... peace was slain ; And thrice , ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn . O Cynthia why so pale ? dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour ? grieve to see thy wheel เ 1 Thrice : ' alluding to the death of his wife , his daughter Mrs ...
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... peace ! Through the dark postern of time long lapsed , Led softly , by the stillness of the night , Led , like a murderer , ( and such it proves ! ) Strays ( wretched rover ! ) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness ...
... peace ! Through the dark postern of time long lapsed , Led softly , by the stillness of the night , Led , like a murderer , ( and such it proves ! ) Strays ( wretched rover ! ) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness ...
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... peace . Man's caution often into danger turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . Not happiness itself makes good her name ! Our very wishes give us not our wish . How distant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for ...
... peace . Man's caution often into danger turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . Not happiness itself makes good her name ! Our very wishes give us not our wish . How distant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids bless'd bliss blood divine boast boundless Busiris call'd charms creation dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal fair fate fire flame fond fool gaze genius give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heaven hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passions peace Philander pleasure praise pride proud rapture reason rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings strange tempest thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wonder wretched ye stars Young
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Страница 18 - 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.
Страница 17 - 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 5 - 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.
Страница 216 - 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 ; Praise, the sweet exhalation of our joy, That joy exalts, and makes it sweeter still ; Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream Of glory on the consecrated hour Of man, in audience with the Deity.
Страница 227 - Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw, What nothing less than angel can exceed, A man on earth devoted to the skies; Like ships in seas, while in, above the world. With aspect mild, and elevated eye, Behold him seated on a mount serene, Above the fogs of sense, and passion's storm ; All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Страница 6 - Silence and darkness ! solemn sisters! twins From ancient night, who nurse the tender thought! To reason, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man,) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.
Страница 6 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Страница 32 - 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 61 - 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, 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 17 - 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...