Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... deep reflections and striking allusions , a wilderness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour . ' It must be allowed , however , that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with ...
... deep reflections and striking allusions , a wilderness of thought , in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour . ' It must be allowed , however , that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with ...
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... deep troubles toss , Loud sorrows howl , envenom'd passions bite , Rav'nous calamities our vitals seize , And threat'ning Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who sorrow for myself ? 295 In age , in infancy , from others ' aid ...
... deep troubles toss , Loud sorrows howl , envenom'd passions bite , Rav'nous calamities our vitals seize , And threat'ning Fate wide opens to devour . What then am I , who sorrow for myself ? 295 In age , in infancy , from others ' aid ...
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... Deep silence , Where eternity begins . ' By Nature's law , what may be , may be now ; There's no prerogative in human hours . In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to ...
... Deep silence , Where eternity begins . ' By Nature's law , what may be , may be now ; There's no prerogative in human hours . In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to ...
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... deep , which nothing disembogues ! 370 And , dying , they bequeath'd thee small renown . The rest are on the wing : how fleet their flight ! Already has the fatal train took fire ; A moment , and the world's blown up to thee ; The sun ...
... deep , which nothing disembogues ! 370 And , dying , they bequeath'd thee small renown . The rest are on the wing : how fleet their flight ! Already has the fatal train took fire ; A moment , and the world's blown up to thee ; The sun ...
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... deep In midnight darkness , whisper'd my last sigh . I whisper'd what should echo through their realms " : Nor writ her name , whose tomb should pierce the skies . Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes , 180 While nature's ...
... deep In midnight darkness , whisper'd my last sigh . I whisper'd what should echo through their realms " : Nor writ her name , whose tomb should pierce the skies . Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes , 180 While nature's ...
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