Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
... scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by Spence to have made him a pre- sent of a human skull , with a candle in it , to serve him for a lamp ; and he is reported to have used it . Yet he ...
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... scenes of life and death , And from each scene the noblest truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her ...
... scenes of life and death , And from each scene the noblest truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her ...
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... scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . 145 150 Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself . How was my heart incrusted by the world ! 156 O how self - fetter'd ...
... scene can threaten or indulge , Resembles ocean into tempest wrought , To waft a feather , or to drown a fly . 145 150 Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself . How was my heart incrusted by the world ! 156 O how self - fetter'd ...
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... scenes of permanent delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the ...
... scenes of permanent delight ! Full above measure ! lasting beyond bound ! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss . Could you , so rich in rapture , fear an end , " That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy , 185 And quite unparadise the ...
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... scene . If not so frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm , That all men are about to live , ' For ever on the brink of being born . 400 ...
... scene . If not so frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm , That all men are about to live , ' For ever on the brink of being born . 400 ...
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