Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityJ. Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1839 - 301 páginas |
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... scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
... scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
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... scenes of life and death , And from each scene the noblest truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her ...
... scenes of life and death , And from each scene the noblest truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her ...
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... scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself . How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self - fetter'd was my grov ...
... scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself . How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self - fetter'd was my grov ...
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... scenes of permanent delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , And quite unparadise the realms ...
... scenes of permanent delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , And quite unparadise the realms ...
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... scene . If not so frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . 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 ...
... scene . If not so frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . 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 ...
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adore 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 divine dost dread dust E'en earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fair fame fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light live Lorenzo Lucifer man's mankind midnight mighty mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason Reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings strange thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars
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Página 23 - 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.
Página 27 - The man who consecrates his hours By vigorous effort, and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death : He walks with nature ; and her paths are peace.
Página 59 - 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.
Página 40 - Painim or Christian; to the blush of wit. Man's highest triumph ! man's profoundest fall! The Death-bed of the just! is yet undrawn By mortal hand ; it merits a Divine : Angels should paint it, angels ever There; There, on a post of honour, and of joy. Dare I presume, then? But PHILANDER bids; And glory tempts, and inclination calls Yet am I struck; as struck the soul, beneath Aerial Groves...
Página 221 - He sees with other eyes than theirs. Where they Behold a sun, he spies a deity : What makes them only smile, makes him adore. Where they see mountains, he but atoms sees : An empire, in his balance, weighs a grain. .They things terrestrial worship as divine ; *His hopes immortal blow them by, as dust, That dims his sight, and shortens his survey, Which longs, in infinite, to lose all bound. Titles and honors (if they prove his fate,) He lays aside, to find his dignity : No dignity they find in aught...
Página 9 - Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. 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...
Página 82 - Talk they of morals ? O thou bleeding Love ! Thou maker of new morals to mankind ! The grand morality is love of Thee.
Página 26 - To man's false optics (from his folly false) Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age. Behold him when past by; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast, cry out on his career.
Página 76 - 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 ! bliss through eternity ! Eternity, too short to speak thy praise ! Or fathom thy profound of love to man...
Página 88 - Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature suffers in the crowd, Nor touches on the world, without a stain : The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn.