Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityJ. Walker, 1811 - 264 pages |
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... d link in being's endless chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal , sully'd , and absorpt ! 65 70 75 Though sully'd and dishonour'd , still divine ! Dim miniature LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMORTALITY . 5.
... d link in being's endless chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal , sully'd , and absorpt ! 65 70 75 Though sully'd and dishonour'd , still divine ! Dim miniature LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMORTALITY . 5.
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... beam , and ripen for the just ! Where momentary ages are no more ! Where Time , and Pain , and Chance , and Death ex- pire ! 145 And is it in the flight of threescore years , To push eternity from human thought , And smother souls ...
... beam , and ripen for the just ! Where momentary ages are no more ! Where Time , and Pain , and Chance , and Death ex- pire ! 145 And is it in the flight of threescore years , To push eternity from human thought , And smother souls ...
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... beam in Leo , silky - soft Favonius breathe still softer , or be chid , And other worlds send odours , sauce , and song , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! 0 ye LORENZOS of our age ! who deem One moment unamus'd , a ...
... beam in Leo , silky - soft Favonius breathe still softer , or be chid , And other worlds send odours , sauce , and song , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! 0 ye LORENZOS of our age ! who deem One moment unamus'd , a ...
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... beam , if born to speech ! If born blest heirs to half their mother's tongue ! ' Tis thought's exchange , which , like th ' alternate push Of waves conflicting , breaks the learned scum , And defecates the student's standing pool . In ...
... beam , if born to speech ! If born blest heirs to half their mother's tongue ! ' Tis thought's exchange , which , like th ' alternate push Of waves conflicting , breaks the learned scum , And defecates the student's standing pool . In ...
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... beam is feeble in delight : Delight intense , is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . Celestial Happiness , whene'er she stoops To visit earth , one shrine the goddess finds , And one alone , to make her sweet ...
... beam is feeble in delight : Delight intense , is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . Celestial Happiness , whene'er she stoops To visit earth , one shrine the goddess finds , And one alone , to make her sweet ...
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æther Ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless canst charms Christian creation dæmons dark Death Deity delight deny'd divine Dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal Ev'n ev'ry fall fate flame folly fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart Heav'n hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live LORENZO Man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal NARCISSA Nature Nature's ne'er Night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passions peace PHILANDER pleasure pow'r praise pride proud Reason rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere spirit stars stings strange sublime sublunary thee theme thine things thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth Virtue Virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars