Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,James Nichol, 1853 - 327 páginas |
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... reason still - a reason , we grant , probably stirred by circumstances into action , for renouncing the empty arena of this world's honours and wealth , and devoting themselves to a higher and nobler purpose . They all saw into the hol ...
... reason still - a reason , we grant , probably stirred by circumstances into action , for renouncing the empty arena of this world's honours and wealth , and devoting themselves to a higher and nobler purpose . They all saw into the hol ...
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... reason , the truth of man's immortality ; to shew the reasonableness of religion , and to inculcate the necessity of a divine revelation , and of a propitiatory sacrifice . That this argument is always steadily pursued , or logically ...
... reason , the truth of man's immortality ; to shew the reasonableness of religion , and to inculcate the necessity of a divine revelation , and of a propitiatory sacrifice . That this argument is always steadily pursued , or logically ...
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... , and the morality arising from it makes the bulk of the Poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned did naturally pour these moral reflections on the thought of the Writer . > NIGHT FIRST . ON LIFE , DEATH , AND.
... , and the morality arising from it makes the bulk of the Poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned did naturally pour these moral reflections on the thought of the Writer . > NIGHT FIRST . ON LIFE , DEATH , AND.
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... 10 From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night.
... 10 From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night.
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... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? _ ...
... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ? _ ...
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Página 18 - 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.
Página 17 - 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.
Página 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 pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 216 - Each branch of piety delight inspires ; Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next, O'er death's dark gulf, and all its horror hides ; Praise, the sweet exhalation of our joy, That joy exalts, and makes it sweeter still ; Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream Of glory on the consecrated hour Of man, in audience with the Deity.
Página 227 - Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw, What nothing less than angel can exceed, A man on earth devoted to the skies; Like ships in seas, while in, above the world. With aspect mild, and elevated eye, Behold him seated on a mount serene, Above the fogs of sense, and passion's storm ; All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Página 6 - 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,) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.
Página 6 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Página 32 - 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 61 - 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 17 - 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 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...