Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... zenith of her dark domain , 11 15 Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty , now stretches forth 20 Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence THE COMPLAINT. ...
... zenith of her dark domain , 11 15 Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty , now stretches forth 20 Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence THE COMPLAINT. ...
Page 11
... throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where momentary ages are no more ! 130 140 Where Time , and Pain , and Chance , and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of ...
... throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where momentary ages are no more ! 130 140 Where Time , and Pain , and Chance , and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of ...
Page 23
... thrones will then be toys , And earth and 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 ...
... thrones will then be toys , And earth and 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 ...
Page 31
... thrones , which shall not mourn their masters changed ; Though we from earth , ethereal they that fell . Such veneration due , O man , to man . Who venerate themselves the world despise . 355 For what , gay friend , is this escutcheon'd ...
... thrones , which shall not mourn their masters changed ; Though we from earth , ethereal they that fell . Such veneration due , O man , to man . Who venerate themselves the world despise . 355 For what , gay friend , is this escutcheon'd ...
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... throne ! In heav'n itself can such indulgence dwell ? O what a groan was there ! a groan not his : He seized our dreadful right , the load sustain'd , And heaved the mountain from a guilty world . A thousand worlds so bought , were ...
... throne ! In heav'n itself can such indulgence dwell ? O what a groan was there ! a groan not his : He seized our dreadful right , the load sustain'd , And heaved the mountain from a guilty world . A thousand worlds so bought , were ...
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