Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them(Gilbert & Rivington) Press, for the author, sold by J.G. & F. Rivington; York, J. & G. Todd; Exeter, C. Upham, 1832 - 154 páginas |
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... shew the importance of time , in our use of it here , as a preparation for eternity , along with the dispositions which should accompany and direct it , under a still higher direction . For this , he says , " " Tis greatly wise to talk ...
... shew the importance of time , in our use of it here , as a preparation for eternity , along with the dispositions which should accompany and direct it , under a still higher direction . For this , he says , " " Tis greatly wise to talk ...
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... shew . In the pleasures of conviviality , where there is a temporary exultation , she calls Bacchus to her assistance , who , as the catch says , " Gave the charter , That a man should barter Wisdom and his health , for the joys of a ...
... shew . In the pleasures of conviviality , where there is a temporary exultation , she calls Bacchus to her assistance , who , as the catch says , " Gave the charter , That a man should barter Wisdom and his health , for the joys of a ...
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... shews its final con- clusion by saying , that " On a sudden we perceive a shock ; Then start , awake , look out ; what see we there ? Our brittle bark is burst on Charon's shore . " We have , however , our warnings of this , and ...
... shews its final con- clusion by saying , that " On a sudden we perceive a shock ; Then start , awake , look out ; what see we there ? Our brittle bark is burst on Charon's shore . " We have , however , our warnings of this , and ...
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... shew our example to others ; but to do that to too many , would be ostentation ; nor , indeed , do old people generally desire it ; such is providential adaptation . Surely , the justness , animation , and vivacity of Young's thoughts ...
... shew our example to others ; but to do that to too many , would be ostentation ; nor , indeed , do old people generally desire it ; such is providential adaptation . Surely , the justness , animation , and vivacity of Young's thoughts ...
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... shews in the regulation and restriction of ambition , love of gain , & c . , saying , " To doat on aught may leave us , or be left , Is that ambition ? then let flames descend , Point to the centre their inverted spires , And learn ...
... shews in the regulation and restriction of ambition , love of gain , & c . , saying , " To doat on aught may leave us , or be left , Is that ambition ? then let flames descend , Point to the centre their inverted spires , And learn ...
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Términos y frases comunes
æther Africanus ambition amicis amicitia amico atque autem believe bliss Cato Christian Cicero comprehend contemplation Creator cùm death Deity divine dread earth enim enjoyments Epicurean Epicurism eternal etiam excite existence faith fear feelings free agency friendship future give given glory Gospel hæc happiness heart heathens heaven hominum hope human immortal justice Lactantius Lælius least less live look Lorenzo man's Manichæan Masinissa mercy mihi mind moral nature Nature's Night Thoughts nihil object old age omnes omnia ourselves passions perhaps pleasure poet poet says potest praise pride quæ quàm quid quidem quod reason rebus religion Scipio seems senectute sense shew sibi skies soul spirit sublime summum bonum sunt suppose supreme surely SWINTON PARK tamquam thee Themistocles things thou tion true truth virtue vitæ wisdom wish Young says
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Página 19 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 12 - 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.
Página 19 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after...
Página 8 - 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.
Página 108 - IF ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth : for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Página 2 - A worm ! a God ! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home -a, stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own. How Reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy!
Página 103 - And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals and immortals seen with awe! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in Heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, Heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train...
Página 19 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Página 73 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque...
Página 71 - Resolve me why the cottager and king, He whom sea-sever'd realms obey, and he Who steals his whole dominion from the waste. Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw, Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh, In fate so distant, in complaint so near?