Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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Page 11
... feel the solemn sound . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours . Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears * Start up alarm'd ...
... feel the solemn sound . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours . Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears * Start up alarm'd ...
Page 16
... feels : More gen'rous sorrow , while it sinks , exalts ; And conscious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue more than prudence bids me give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken , too , the torrent of their grief ...
... feels : More gen'rous sorrow , while it sinks , exalts ; And conscious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue more than prudence bids me give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken , too , the torrent of their grief ...
Page 26
... feel his error if unseen , And teenng , fly to labour for his cure ; Not blund'ring , split on idleness for ease . 159 Life's cares are comforts ; such by Heav'n design'd ; He that hath none must make them , or be wretched . Cares are ...
... feel his error if unseen , And teenng , fly to labour for his cure ; Not blund'ring , split on idleness for ease . 159 Life's cares are comforts ; such by Heav'n design'd ; He that hath none must make them , or be wretched . Cares are ...
Page 31
... feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like passion for eternals quench'd ; . All relish of realities expired ; Renounced all correspondence with the skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd ...
... feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like passion for eternals quench'd ; . All relish of realities expired ; Renounced all correspondence with the skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd ...
Page 34
... feel , He scarce believes he's older for his years : Thus at life's latest eve , we keep in store One disappointment sure , to crown the rest ; The disappointment of a promised hour . On this or similar , Philander , thou , 435 440 445 ...
... feel , He scarce believes he's older for his years : Thus at life's latest eve , we keep in store One disappointment sure , to crown the rest ; The disappointment of a promised hour . On this or similar , Philander , thou , 435 440 445 ...
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