Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... skies ! 170 Night visions may befriend ( as sung above :) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave ...
... skies ! 170 Night visions may befriend ( as sung above :) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave ...
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... skies seem dust upon the scale . 55 60 65 70 Redeem we time ? -Its loss we dearly buy . 75 What pleads Lorenzo for his high - priz'd sports ? He pleads time's num'rous blanks ; he loudly pleads The straw - like trifles on life's common ...
... skies seem dust upon the scale . 55 60 65 70 Redeem we time ? -Its loss we dearly buy . 75 What pleads Lorenzo for his high - priz'd sports ? He pleads time's num'rous blanks ; he loudly pleads The straw - like trifles on life's common ...
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... skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , 210 Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings , around him , as ...
... skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , 210 Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings , around him , as ...
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... skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd all that ought to soar ; Prone to the centre ; crawling in the dust ; Dismounted ev'ry great and glorious aim ; Embruted ev'ry faculty divine : Heart ...
... skies : Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our desire ; In sense dark - prison'd all that ought to soar ; Prone to the centre ; crawling in the dust ; Dismounted ev'ry great and glorious aim ; Embruted ev'ry faculty divine : Heart ...
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... skies ) As man's despotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn From bosom , bleeding o'er the sacred dead ; Should ...
... skies ) As man's despotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn From bosom , bleeding o'er the sacred dead ; Should ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd canst charms creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust E'en earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fair fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason Reason sleeps rise sacred scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings storm strange thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars