Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... Thoughts abound in the most exalted flights , the utmost stretch of human thought , which is the great excellence of Young's poetry . In his Night Thoughts , ' says a great critic , he has exhi- bited a very wide display of original ...
... Thoughts abound in the most exalted flights , the utmost stretch of human thought , which is the great excellence of Young's poetry . In his Night Thoughts , ' says a great critic , he has exhi- bited a very wide display of original ...
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... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost : Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe . The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in ...
... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost : Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe . The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in ...
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... thought To reason , and on reason build resolve , ( That column of true majesty in man ) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what ...
... thought To reason , and on reason build resolve , ( That column of true majesty in man ) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what ...
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... Thought wanders up and down , surprised , aghast , And wond'ring at her own . How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ! What can preserve ...
... Thought wanders up and down , surprised , aghast , And wond'ring at her own . How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ! What can preserve ...
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... thought their tombs around In infidel distress ? Are angels there ? Numbers , raked up in dust , ethereal fire ? They live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity ...
... thought their tombs around In infidel distress ? Are angels there ? Numbers , raked up in dust , ethereal fire ? They live ! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled , unconceived ; and from an eye Of tenderness let heav'nly pity ...
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