Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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Page 7
... caused all his manu- scripts to be destroyed before his death . He left the whole of his fortune , which was pretty consider able , with the exception of a few legacies , to his son , Mr. Frederic Young , though he would never see him ...
... caused all his manu- scripts to be destroyed before his death . He left the whole of his fortune , which was pretty consider able , with the exception of a few legacies , to his son , Mr. Frederic Young , though he would never see him ...
Page 15
... cause to sigh . A part how small of the terraqueous globe 285 Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , deserts , frozen seas , and burning sands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , stings , and death . Such is earth's ...
... cause to sigh . A part how small of the terraqueous globe 285 Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , deserts , frozen seas , and burning sands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , stings , and death . Such is earth's ...
Page 17
... cause and consequence , And make us tremble , weigh'd with our desert ; Awe Nature's tumult , and chastise her joys , Lest while we clasp , we kill them ; nay , invert To worse than simple misery their charms . Revolted joys , like foes ...
... cause and consequence , And make us tremble , weigh'd with our desert ; Awe Nature's tumult , and chastise her joys , Lest while we clasp , we kill them ; nay , invert To worse than simple misery their charms . Revolted joys , like foes ...
Page 18
... cause ; a warning was denied : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ; As sudden , though for years admonish'd home ! Of human ills the last extreme beware ; Beware , Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death . How dreadful that deliberate surprise ...
... cause ; a warning was denied : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ; As sudden , though for years admonish'd home ! Of human ills the last extreme beware ; Beware , Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death . How dreadful that deliberate surprise ...
Page 25
... cause and cure explore . Not short Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard Nature ; men are prodigals . 150 We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare ...
... cause and cure explore . Not short Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard Nature ; men are prodigals . 150 We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd canst charms creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust E'en earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fair fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n 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 nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason Reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings storm strange thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars