The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JobR. Chapman and A. Duncan, 1775 - 388 Seiten |
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... mortal ! dangerous the defire . Take Phoebus to yourselves , ye basking bards ! Inebriate at fair fortune's fountain - head , And reeling thro ' the wilderness of joy ; Where fenfe runs favage , broke from reafon's chain , And fings ...
... mortal ! dangerous the defire . Take Phoebus to yourselves , ye basking bards ! Inebriate at fair fortune's fountain - head , And reeling thro ' the wilderness of joy ; Where fenfe runs favage , broke from reafon's chain , And fings ...
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... mortal ear . Tranfmit it heard , thou filver queen of heaven ! What title , or what name , endears thee moft ? Cynthia ! Cyllene ! Phoebe ! -or doft hear With higher guft , fair P - d of the fkies ? Is that the foft enchantment calls ...
... mortal ear . Tranfmit it heard , thou filver queen of heaven ! What title , or what name , endears thee moft ? Cynthia ! Cyllene ! Phoebe ! -or doft hear With higher guft , fair P - d of the fkies ? Is that the foft enchantment calls ...
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... mortal tafte , While here , prefuming on the rights of heaven . For transport doft thou call on ev'ry hour , Lorenzo ? At thy friend's expence be wife ; Lean not on earth ; ' twill pierce thee to the heart , A broken reed , at beft ...
... mortal tafte , While here , prefuming on the rights of heaven . For transport doft thou call on ev'ry hour , Lorenzo ? At thy friend's expence be wife ; Lean not on earth ; ' twill pierce thee to the heart , A broken reed , at beft ...
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... mortal wound , And , firft , of dying friends ; what fruit from thefe ? It brings us more than triple aid ; an aid To chafe our thoughtleffnefs , fear , pride , and guilt . Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud , To damp our ...
... mortal wound , And , firft , of dying friends ; what fruit from thefe ? It brings us more than triple aid ; an aid To chafe our thoughtleffnefs , fear , pride , and guilt . Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud , To damp our ...
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... mortal . Man's mortality Was , then , transferr'd to death ; and heav'n's duration . Unalienably feal'd to this frail frame , This child of duft , man , all immortal ! hail ; Hail , heav'n ! all - lavish of strange gifts to man ! Thine ...
... mortal . Man's mortality Was , then , transferr'd to death ; and heav'n's duration . Unalienably feal'd to this frail frame , This child of duft , man , all immortal ! hail ; Hail , heav'n ! all - lavish of strange gifts to man ! Thine ...
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againſt ambition angels art thou becauſe beneath bleffings bleft blifs boaſt book of Job boundleſs breaſt cauſe darkneſs death defcend Deity divine Doft dread duft earth endleſs eternal ev'ry facred fafe fame fate fcene feems feen fenfe fhades fhall fhines fhould figh fight fink firſt fkies fleep fmile foft fome fong fons foon foul fpirit ftars ftill fuch fure glory guilt happineſs heart heav'n himſelf human illuftrious immortal juft laſt lefs life's loft Lorenzo man's moft mortal moſt muft muſt nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffions paft pain peace pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe prefent pride proud reafon rife ſcene ſcheme ſhall ſkies ſpeak ſphere ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtorm ſtream ſtrikes ſtrong thee thefe theme themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thought thouſand thro throne truth vaft virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom wiſh wretched
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Seite 16 - 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.
Seite 17 - 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.
Seite 16 - 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 applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Seite 5 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Seite 33 - 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.
Seite 85 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
Seite 17 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Seite 16 - How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodg'd in their own hands is Folly's vails ; That lodg'd in Fate's to wisdom they consign ; The thing they can't but purpose they postpone.
Seite 103 - 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.
Seite 7 - Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man. Yet man, fool man ! here buries all his thoughts ; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh.