Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,James Nichol, 1853 - 327 páginas |
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... An irresistible current had long been carrying him on , with many a convulsive recalcitration on his part , to this determination . That great intellect and heart , over which , already , the shadow of the " OF EDWARD YOUNG . ix.
... An irresistible current had long been carrying him on , with many a convulsive recalcitration on his part , to this determination . That great intellect and heart , over which , already , the shadow of the " OF EDWARD YOUNG . ix.
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... heart ; and felt that the gospel alone could fill that aching void , and satisfy those dreary cravings . Hence , Herbert quitted the pleasures of a court ; Chalmers dropped his air - pump and his telescope ; Foster resigned his ...
... heart ; and felt that the gospel alone could fill that aching void , and satisfy those dreary cravings . Hence , Herbert quitted the pleasures of a court ; Chalmers dropped his air - pump and his telescope ; Foster resigned his ...
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... heart from woe ! I roll their raptures , but not catch their fire , Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or his , who made Mæonides our own . Man , too , he sung ; immortal man I sing ; Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds ...
... heart from woe ! I roll their raptures , but not catch their fire , Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or his , who made Mæonides our own . Man , too , he sung ; immortal man I sing ; Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds ...
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... heart encrusted by the world ! O how self - fetter'd was my grovelling soul ! How , like a worm , was I wrapt round and round In silken thought , which reptile fancy spun , Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit ...
... heart encrusted by the world ! O how self - fetter'd was my grovelling soul ! How , like a worm , was I wrapt round and round In silken thought , which reptile fancy spun , Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit ...
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... heart ! Death ! great proprietor of all ! ' tis thine To tread out empire , and to quench the stars . The sun himself by thy permission shines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid such mighty plunder , why ...
... heart ! Death ! great proprietor of all ! ' tis thine To tread out empire , and to quench the stars . The sun himself by thy permission shines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid such mighty plunder , why ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids bless'd bliss blood divine boast boundless Busiris call'd charms creation dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal fair fate fire flame fond fool genius George Gilfillan give glorious glory gods grandeur grave grief guilt happiness heart heaven hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passions peace Philander pleasure praise pride proud rapture reason rise sacred scene sense shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings strange tempest thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched Young
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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 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 34 - 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 67 - 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...
Página 10 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 9 - 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...
Página 11 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 26 - If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more* In faith and hope the world will disagree ; But all mankind's concern is charity.