Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... Heav'n husbands all events : 105 Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around In infidel distress ? Are angels there ? Numbers ...
... Heav'n husbands all events : 105 Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around In infidel distress ? Are angels there ? Numbers ...
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... Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard Nature ; men are prodigals . 150 We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare existence , man , to live ordain'd , Wrings ...
... Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expense ; No niggard Nature ; men are prodigals . 150 We waste , not use , our time : we breathe , not live . Time wasted is existence , used is life ; And bare existence , man , to live ordain'd , Wrings ...
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... Heav'n design'd ; He that hath none must make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments ; and without employ The soul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To souls most adverse ; action all their joy . Here , then , the riddle mark'd ...
... Heav'n design'd ; He that hath none must make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments ; and without employ The soul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To souls most adverse ; action all their joy . Here , then , the riddle mark'd ...
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... ( Heav'n's stranger ) sent On his important embassy to man . Lorenzo ! no : on the long destined hour , From everlasting ages growing ripe , That memorable hour of wondrous birth , When the Dread Sire , on emanation bent , And big with ...
... ( Heav'n's stranger ) sent On his important embassy to man . Lorenzo ! no : on the long destined hour , From everlasting ages growing ripe , That memorable hour of wondrous birth , When the Dread Sire , on emanation bent , And big with ...
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... Heav'n's on their wing : a moment we may wish , When worlds want wealth to buy . Bid Day stand still ; Bid him drive back his car , and re - import The period past , re - give the given hour . Lorenzo , more than miracles we want ...
... Heav'n's on their wing : a moment we may wish , When worlds want wealth to buy . Bid Day stand still ; Bid him drive back his car , and re - import The period past , re - give the given hour . Lorenzo , more than miracles we want ...
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