Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... god ! —I tremble at myself , And in myself am lost . At home , a stranger , Thought wanders up and down , surprised , aghast , And wond'ring at her own . How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what ...
... god ! —I tremble at myself , And in myself am lost . At home , a stranger , Thought wanders up and down , surprised , aghast , And wond'ring at her own . How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what ...
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... Gods ( O transport ! ) and of man . Yet man , fool man , here buries all his thoughts ; 135 Inters celestial hopes ... God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where momentary ages are ...
... Gods ( O transport ! ) and of man . Yet man , fool man , here buries all his thoughts ; 135 Inters celestial hopes ... God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where momentary ages are ...
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... God's image , disinherited of day , " 240 245 250 Here , plunged in mines , forgets a sun was made ; There , beings , deathless as their haughty lord , Are hammer'd to the galling oar for life ; And plough the winter's wave , and reap ...
... God's image , disinherited of day , " 240 245 250 Here , plunged in mines , forgets a sun was made ; There , beings , deathless as their haughty lord , Are hammer'd to the galling oar for life ; And plough the winter's wave , and reap ...
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... gods indulge . To - day is yesterday return'd ; return Full - power'd to cancel , expiate , raise , adorn , And reinstate us on the rock of peace . Let it not share its predecessor's fate , Nor , like its eldest sisters , die a fool ...
... gods indulge . To - day is yesterday return'd ; return Full - power'd to cancel , expiate , raise , adorn , And reinstate us on the rock of peace . Let it not share its predecessor's fate , Nor , like its eldest sisters , die a fool ...
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... 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 all that ought to soar ; Prone to ...
... 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 all that ought to soar ; Prone to ...
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