Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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Page 31
... guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like passion for eternals quench'd ; . All relish of realities expired ; Renounced all correspondence with ...
... guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like passion for eternals quench'd ; . All relish of realities expired ; Renounced all correspondence with ...
Page 47
... guilt ? what guilt Can equal violations of the dead ? The dead how sacred ! sacred is the dust 185 190 Of this heav'n - labour'd form , erect , divine NARCISSA . 47.
... guilt ? what guilt Can equal violations of the dead ? The dead how sacred ! sacred is the dust 185 190 Of this heav'n - labour'd form , erect , divine NARCISSA . 47.
Page 50
... guilt . Our dying friends come o'er us , like a cloud , To damp our brainless ardours , and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise . Our dying friends are pioneers , to smooth Our rugged paths to death ; to break those ...
... guilt . Our dying friends come o'er us , like a cloud , To damp our brainless ardours , and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise . Our dying friends are pioneers , to smooth Our rugged paths to death ; to break those ...
Page 54
... guilt interposes , lab'ring earth , O'ershadow'd , mourns a deep eclipse of joy ; Her joys , at brightest , pallid to that font Of full effulgent glory whence they flow . Nor is that glory distant . O Lorenzo , 420 425 430 A good man ...
... guilt interposes , lab'ring earth , O'ershadow'd , mourns a deep eclipse of joy ; Her joys , at brightest , pallid to that font Of full effulgent glory whence they flow . Nor is that glory distant . O Lorenzo , 420 425 430 A good man ...
Page 61
... Guilt's blunder ! and the loudest laugh of Hell . O my coevals ! remnants of yourselves ! Poor human ruins tottering o'er the grave ! Shall we , shall aged men , like aged trees , Strike deeper their vile root , and closer cling , Still ...
... Guilt's blunder ! and the loudest laugh of Hell . O my coevals ! remnants of yourselves ! Poor human ruins tottering o'er the grave ! Shall we , shall aged men , like aged trees , Strike deeper their vile root , and closer cling , Still ...
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