Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the gen❜ral pulse Of life stood still , and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end . And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more . Silence and ...
... Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the gen❜ral pulse Of life stood still , and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end . And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more . Silence and ...
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... creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the cypress sad gloom , The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All , all on earth is shadow , all beyond 120 Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all where change ...
... creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the cypress sad gloom , The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All , all on earth is shadow , all beyond 120 Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all where change ...
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... creation ( for then Time was born ) 205 By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heav'n , From old Eternity's mysterious orb 200 Was Time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The ...
... creation ( for then Time was born ) 205 By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heav'n , From old Eternity's mysterious orb 200 Was Time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The ...
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... , death urges , knells call , Heav'n invites , Hell threatens all exerts ; in effort all ; 295 More than creation labours ! -labours more ? And 3 * ON TIME , DEATH , AND FRIENDSHIP . 29 On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, ...
... , death urges , knells call , Heav'n invites , Hell threatens all exerts ; in effort all ; 295 More than creation labours ! -labours more ? And 3 * ON TIME , DEATH , AND FRIENDSHIP . 29 On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, ...
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Edward Young. 295 More than creation labours ! -labours more ? And is there in creation , what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd despatch , And ardent energy , supinely yawns ? — Man sleeps , and man alone ; and man whose fate ...
Edward Young. 295 More than creation labours ! -labours more ? And is there in creation , what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd despatch , And ardent energy , supinely yawns ? — Man sleeps , and man alone ; and man whose fate ...
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