Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... things do not deceive us . ' In his poem of the Last Day , one of his earliest works , he calls his muse ' the Melancholy Maid , • whom dismal scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by ...
... things do not deceive us . ' In his poem of the Last Day , one of his earliest works , he calls his muse ' the Melancholy Maid , • whom dismal scenes delight , • Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night . ' Grafton is said by ...
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... , the vanity of human things , its fleeting honours and en- joyments , and contain the strongest arguments in support of the immortality of the soul . THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT I. -000- ON LIFE , DEATH PI MEMOIRS , & c .
... , the vanity of human things , its fleeting honours and en- joyments , and contain the strongest arguments in support of the immortality of the soul . THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT I. -000- ON LIFE , DEATH PI MEMOIRS , & c .
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... things rise in proof . While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread , What though my soul fantastic measures trod O'er fairy fields , or mourn'd along the gloom Of pathless woods , or , down the craggy steep Hurl'd headlong , swam ...
... things rise in proof . While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread , What though my soul fantastic measures trod O'er fairy fields , or mourn'd along the gloom Of pathless woods , or , down the craggy steep Hurl'd headlong , swam ...
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... things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave ! Eternal sunshine in the storms of life ! How richly were my noontide trances hung With gorgeous ...
... things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave ! Eternal sunshine in the storms of life ! How richly were my noontide trances hung With gorgeous ...
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... thing we doat on most From that for which we doat , felicity ! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains , And truest friends , through error , wound our rest . Without misfortune what calamities ! 280 And what hostilities without a ...
... thing we doat on most From that for which we doat , felicity ! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains , And truest friends , through error , wound our rest . Without misfortune what calamities ! 280 And what hostilities without a ...
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