Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
... delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
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... delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the realms of light ...
... delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the realms of light ...
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... delight . In ev'ry varied posture , place , and hour , How widow'd ev'ry thought of ev'ry joy ! Thought , busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Through the dark postern of time long elapsed , Led softly , by the stillness of the night ...
... delight . In ev'ry varied posture , place , and hour , How widow'd ev'ry thought of ev'ry joy ! Thought , busy thought ! too busy for my peace ! Through the dark postern of time long elapsed , Led softly , by the stillness of the night ...
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... delights To woe's wide empire , where 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 ...
... delights To woe's wide empire , where 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 ...
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... delight me ; half impress 20 dark cloud an Iris , and from grief On my Call glory . - Dost thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou say'st it : says thy life the same ? He mourns the dead , who lives as they desire . Where is that ...
... delight me ; half impress 20 dark cloud an Iris , and from grief On my Call glory . - Dost thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou say'st it : says thy life the same ? He mourns the dead , who lives as they desire . Where is that ...
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