Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... fire ? They live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . 110 This is the desert , this the solitude : 115 How ...
... fire ? They live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity fall On me , more justly number'd with the dead . 110 This is the desert , this the solitude : 115 How ...
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... fires , Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness , Thrown into tumult , raptured or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . 145 150 Where ...
... fires , Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness , Thrown into tumult , raptured or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . 145 150 Where ...
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... fire , Intestine broils , Oppression , with her heart Wrapt up in triple brass , besiege mankind . God's image , disinherited of day , " 240 245 250 Here , plunged in mines , forgets a sun was made ; There , beings , deathless as their ...
... fire , Intestine broils , Oppression , with her heart Wrapt up in triple brass , besiege mankind . God's image , disinherited of day , " 240 245 250 Here , plunged in mines , forgets a sun was made ; There , beings , deathless as their ...
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... fire . Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or , Milton , thee ! ah , could I reach your strain ! Or his who made Mæonides our own . Man , too , he sung ; immortal man I sing . 450 Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of ...
... fire . Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or , Milton , thee ! ah , could I reach your strain ! Or his who made Mæonides our own . Man , too , he sung ; immortal man I sing . 450 Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of ...
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... fire To reach the distant skies , and triumph there 340 345 350 On thrones , which shall not mourn their masters changed ; Though we from earth , ethereal they that fell . Such veneration due , O man , to man . Who venerate themselves ...
... fire To reach the distant skies , and triumph there 340 345 350 On thrones , which shall not mourn their masters changed ; Though we from earth , ethereal they that fell . Such veneration due , O man , to man . Who venerate themselves ...
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