The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..A. Millar and T. Cadell, ... and J. Dodsley, 1768 - 315 страница |
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... must compute that Age He cannot feel , He fcarce believes he's older for his Years . Thus , at Life's latest Eve , we keep in Store One Disappointment fure , to crown the Rest ; The Disappointment of a promis'd Hour . On This , or ...
... must compute that Age He cannot feel , He fcarce believes he's older for his Years . Thus , at Life's latest Eve , we keep in Store One Disappointment fure , to crown the Rest ; The Disappointment of a promis'd Hour . On This , or ...
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... must he refign his very Dust , Which frugal Nature lent him for an Hour ! Years unexperienc'd rush on num'rous Ills ; And foon as Man , expert from Time , has found The Key of Life , it opes the Gates of Death . When in this Vale of ...
... must he refign his very Dust , Which frugal Nature lent him for an Hour ! Years unexperienc'd rush on num'rous Ills ; And foon as Man , expert from Time , has found The Key of Life , it opes the Gates of Death . When in this Vale of ...
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... must fail fo foon ; And put Good - works on Board ; and wait the Wind That shortly blows us into Worlds unknown . If unconfider'd too , a dreadful Scené ! All thould be Prophets to themselves ; forefee Their future Fate ; their future ...
... must fail fo foon ; And put Good - works on Board ; and wait the Wind That shortly blows us into Worlds unknown . If unconfider'd too , a dreadful Scené ! All thould be Prophets to themselves ; forefee Their future Fate ; their future ...
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... Must I then forward only look for Death ? Backward I turn mine Eye , and find him there . Man is a Self - furvivor ev'ry Year . Man , like a Stream , is in perpetual Flow , Death's a Destroyer of Quotidian Prey . My Youth , my Noon ...
... Must I then forward only look for Death ? Backward I turn mine Eye , and find him there . Man is a Self - furvivor ev'ry Year . Man , like a Stream , is in perpetual Flow , Death's a Destroyer of Quotidian Prey . My Youth , my Noon ...
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... must for ever be indifputable . And of confequence no Man can be betrayed into a Difpute of that Nature by Vanity , which has a principal Share in animating our modern Combatants against other Articles of our Belief . SH HE * ( for I ...
... must for ever be indifputable . And of confequence no Man can be betrayed into a Difpute of that Nature by Vanity , which has a principal Share in animating our modern Combatants against other Articles of our Belief . SH HE * ( for I ...
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Æther againſt Ambition Angels art thou Becauſe beneath Bleffing bleft Blifs Book of Job boundleſs Breaft Caufe Cauſe Chimæra Dæmons dark Darkneſs Death defcend Deity diftant Divine Doft dreadful Duft Earth endleſs Eternity Ev'n ev'ry facred fame Fate feems feen fhall fhines fhould Flame fleeps foft fome Fool foon Friend ftill ftrange ftrike fuch fure Glory Grave Guilt Happineſs Heart Heav'n Himſelf human illuftrious Immortal juft laft lefs Life's Light 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 rife riſe Scene Senfe Senſe ſhall ſhe ſhine Skies Song Soul ſpeaks Stars ſtill thee Thefe Theme themſelves theſe Thine thofe thoſe Thought thouſand thro Throne Triumph Truth univerfal Virtue whofe Whoſe Wife Wing Wiſdom Wiſh World wretched
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Страница 20 - 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.
Страница 7 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the...
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 215 - While party-colour'd shreds of happiness, With hideous gaps between, patch up for them A madman's robe; each puff of fortune blows The tatters by, and shows their nakedness.
Страница 70 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
Страница 40 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! And happy (if aught happy here) as good!
Страница 17 - Strikes thro' 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.
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 pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Страница 172 - Who would not give a trifle to prevent What he would give a thousand worlds to cure ? Lorenzo ! thou hast seen (if thine to see) All Nature and her GOD (by Nature's course, And Nature's course controll'd) declare for me. The skies above proclaim ' immortal man !' And ' man immortal !
Страница 28 - 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.