This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death alone, can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free. The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four Volumes - Страница 9написао/ла Edward Young - 1762Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 724 страница
...while confined by the trammels, and encompassed by the infirmities inseparable from mortality. " Tiiii is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death alone can heave the massy bars ;... | |
| 1827 - 684 страница
...frail and feeble tenure. He hearkens to the still small voice which warns him that this is but — " the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule" to another and immortal state of On the Privileges of Invalids, existence, and he is led... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 страница
...beyond Is substance; the reverse is folly's creed: How solid nil, where change shall be no more ! Thin is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone can heave the massy bar,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страница
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed ; How solid all, where change shall be no more t This lame the culture, not the soil: Fixed to no spot is Hap diiy, the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death alone can heave the massy... | |
| 1859 - 956 страница
...dferth, a'r da : mewn gair, yma у mae dyn yn cael ei barotui ar gyfer у byd arall. Fel y dywed y "This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule. Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death alone can heave the massy bar, This... | |
| 1858 - 884 страница
...gair, yma у mae dyn yn cael ei barotôi ar gyfer y byd arall. Fel y dywed y bardd, — " This w (he bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule. Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death alono can heave the many bar, This... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 страница
...— " Our little life is rounded by a sleep." Homer calls him a leaf, and St. James a vapour. " This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule." Diodorus Siculus observes of the Egyptians, — " They deem the residence of man so short... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 страница
...tombs around In infidel distress? Are angels there? Slumbers, raked up in dust, ethereal fire? This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule. Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This... | |
| 1840 - 372 страница
...beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all, where change shall be no more ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar,... | |
| Benjamin Dorr - 1841 - 462 страница
...sincere, Ours be the lenient, not unpleasing tear. 'Tis the great birthright of mankind to die, Life is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar,... | |
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