Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... fears * Start up alarm'd , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down - on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich ...
... fears * Start up alarm'd , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down - on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich ...
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... fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the realms of light . " Safe are you lodged above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on ...
... fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the realms of light . " Safe are you lodged above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on ...
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... fear is sacred to the storm , Stand on thy guard against the smiles of Fate . Is Heav'n tremendous in its frowns ? most sure ; And in its favours formidable too : Its favours here are trials , not rewards ; A call to duty , not ...
... fear is sacred to the storm , Stand on thy guard against the smiles of Fate . Is Heav'n tremendous in its frowns ? most sure ; And in its favours formidable too : Its favours here are trials , not rewards ; A call to duty , not ...
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... fears around 110 . On all that saw ( and who would cease to gaze 115 That once had seen ? ) with haste , parental haste , I flew , I snatch'd her from the rigid north , Her native bed , on which bleak Boreas blew , And bore her nearer ...
... fears around 110 . On all that saw ( and who would cease to gaze 115 That once had seen ? ) with haste , parental haste , I flew , I snatch'd her from the rigid north , Her native bed , on which bleak Boreas blew , And bore her nearer ...
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... fear ! how durst I dread her foes , 180 While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? ' Pardon necessity , blest shade ! of grief And indignation rival bursts I pour'd ; Half execration mingled with my prayer ; Kindled at man , while I his ...
... fear ! how durst I dread her foes , 180 While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? ' Pardon necessity , blest shade ! of grief And indignation rival bursts I pour'd ; Half execration mingled with my prayer ; Kindled at man , while I his ...
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