Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & ImmortalityH.G. Hale & Company, 1810 - 254 страница |
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... Passion , is a great performance . The shafts of his wit are directed against the folly of being devoted to the fashion , and aiming to appear what we are not . We meet here with smoothness of style , pointed sentences , solid ...
... Passion , is a great performance . The shafts of his wit are directed against the folly of being devoted to the fashion , and aiming to appear what we are not . We meet here with smoothness of style , pointed sentences , solid ...
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... passion for eternals quench'd ; All relish of realities expir'd ; Renounc'd all correspondence with the skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd all that ought to soar ; Prone to the centre ...
... passion for eternals quench'd ; All relish of realities expir'd ; Renounc'd all correspondence with the skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd all that ought to soar ; Prone to the centre ...
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... passion's flame Hearts melt , but melt like ice , soon harder froze . True love strikes root in reason , passion's foe ; Virtue alone entenders us for life : I wrong her much - entenders us for ever . Of friendship's fairest fruits ...
... passion's flame Hearts melt , but melt like ice , soon harder froze . True love strikes root in reason , passion's foe ; Virtue alone entenders us for life : I wrong her much - entenders us for ever . Of friendship's fairest fruits ...
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... passion sleeps that can offend ; When strikes us ev'ry motive that can melt ; When man can wreak his rancour uncontrol'd , That strongest curb on insult and ill - will ; Then , spleen to dust ? the dust of innocence ? An angel's dust ...
... passion sleeps that can offend ; When strikes us ev'ry motive that can melt ; When man can wreak his rancour uncontrol'd , That strongest curb on insult and ill - will ; Then , spleen to dust ? the dust of innocence ? An angel's dust ...
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... Passion is reason , transport temper , here . Shall Heav'n , which gave us ardour , and has shewo Her own for man so strongly , not disdain What smooth emollients in theology , Recumbent virtue's downy doctors preach , That prose of ...
... Passion is reason , transport temper , here . Shall Heav'n , which gave us ardour , and has shewo Her own for man so strongly , not disdain What smooth emollients in theology , Recumbent virtue's downy doctors preach , That prose of ...
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ambition angels archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd canst charms creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight deny'd divine dost dread dust Earl of LITCHFIELD earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passions peace pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere stars stings strange thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester College wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched
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Страница 17 - And that through every stage : when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, 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 16 - 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 88 - Each moment on the former shuts the grave. While man is growing, life is in decrease ; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
Страница 17 - 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! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails; That lodged in Fate's to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they postpone.
Страница 50 - 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, T 3 The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Страница 7 - 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 11 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at every breeze.
Страница 12 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Страница 38 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young , And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay...
Страница 32 - Can gold gain friendship? Impudence of hope! As well mere man an angel might beget. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. Lorenzo ! pride repress ; nor hope to find A friend but what has found a. friend in thee. All like the purchase ; few the price will pay; And this makes friends such miracles below.