Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

INDEX.

Pago.

LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE POET

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS

A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF THE WORKS OF DR. YOUNG.

CONTENTS OF NIGHT I., ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.
The Reign of Night....

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Address to the Author of Light

My departed Hours

Contrasts in man..

Night proclaims the Soul immortal

The buried live ....

75

76

77

78

78

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Resignation to the great Arbiter of life and death.

161

164

166

166

167

171

172

[blocks in formation]

The praise of Redemption more appropriate to man than to
angels..

184

[blocks in formation]

Page.

The Second Advent

The Christian's faith is rational

False pretensions of philosophic infidelity

The voice of Conscience must be heard...

NIGHT V.-THE RELAPSE..

Pleasure and Pride, of opposite tendencies
Wit strives to reconcile them

196

197

199

201

203

204

204

[blocks in formation]

Happiness, in contentment; not in fortune

The base idolatry of fortune.......

Lysander and Aspasia. The disappointed nuptials......

NIGHT VI.-THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. PART I.

The nature of Immortality.

24'

24.

241

1

25

254

[blocks in formation]

True wealth, in the intellectual and moral powers.

271

[blocks in formation]

Bp. Butler's argument, from analogy, for a future state

288

Page.

294

296

297

....

NIGHT VII-THE SECOND PART OF THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED
Argument for immortality founded on man's discontent
Argument from our various susceptibilities and powers
Argument from the gradual and imperfect growth of Reason, 298
Argument from human Hopes

Argument from the nature and rewards of Virtue

299

300

[blocks in formation]

The anguish and complaints of a good man in view of Anni-
hilation

324

[blocks in formation]

An all-preserving contrasted with an annihilating God....

334

The importance of a soul immortal.....

336

[blocks in formation]

True free-thinking defined.

Two kinds of life and of death...
Infidelity betrays guilt and hypocrisy.
A reformed life renders faith easy.

Vice alone recommends the scheme of Annihilation.
Immortality marvellous, but not therefore incredible
Comparative influence of the present and the future.
The power of Hope, and its value

345

348

350

351

352

354

355

355

[blocks in formation]

The several stages of life, in the history of Florello.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

The man who lives as an immortal contrasted with the world-

[blocks in formation]

The grand and awful events which follow the last sentence.. 431

[blocks in formation]

Feelings arising upon a view of the nocturnal heavens

Devotion the daughter of Astronomy..

439

440

442

445

446

The existence and grandeur of the Deity

The stars tell of angelic beings.

447

449

Nature contrasted with Art

450

« AnteriorContinuar »