Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... kind- That Nature's first , last lesson to mankind : The selfish heart deserves the pain it feels : More gen'rous sorrow , while it sinks , exalts ; And conscious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue more than prudence bids me give ...
... kind- That Nature's first , last lesson to mankind : The selfish heart deserves the pain it feels : More gen'rous sorrow , while it sinks , exalts ; And conscious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue more than prudence bids me give ...
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... kind Nature keeps a school , 285 To teach her sons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew ; each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for ...
... kind Nature keeps a school , 285 To teach her sons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew ; each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for ...
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... Kind Experience cries , There's nothing here , but what as nothing weighs ; The more our joy , the more we know it vain ; And by success are tutor'd to despair . ' Nor is it only thus , but must be so . Who knows not this , though gray ...
... Kind Experience cries , There's nothing here , but what as nothing weighs ; The more our joy , the more we know it vain ; And by success are tutor'd to despair . ' Nor is it only thus , but must be so . Who knows not this , though gray ...
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... kind , that struck our latent truth , Best found , so sought ; to the recluse more coy Thoughts disentangle , passing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tie up nonsense for a song ; Song ...
... kind , that struck our latent truth , Best found , so sought ; to the recluse more coy Thoughts disentangle , passing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tie up nonsense for a song ; Song ...
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... or in propitious dreams 50 ( For dreams are thine ) transfuse it thro ' the breast Of thy first votary - but not thy last , * At the Duke of Norfolk's masquerade . If , like thy namesake , thou art ever kind NARCISSA .
... or in propitious dreams 50 ( For dreams are thine ) transfuse it thro ' the breast Of thy first votary - but not thy last , * At the Duke of Norfolk's masquerade . If , like thy namesake , thou art ever kind NARCISSA .
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