The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: Also, The Consolation; Night 9th and Last With the Life of the AuthorRice, 1800 |
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... fail , than cause to figh . A part how fmall of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man . the reft a waste , Rocks , defarts , frozen feas , and burning fands ; Wild haunts of monfters , poifons , ftings , and death . Such is earth's ...
... fail , than cause to figh . A part how fmall of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man . the reft a waste , Rocks , defarts , frozen feas , and burning fands ; Wild haunts of monfters , poifons , ftings , and death . Such is earth's ...
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... fail , And the lark liften to my midnight long . The fprightly lark's fhrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's fharpeft thorn hard - preffing on my breast , I ftrive , with wakeful melody , to cheer The fullen gloom , fweet Philome !! like ...
... fail , And the lark liften to my midnight long . The fprightly lark's fhrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's fharpeft thorn hard - preffing on my breast , I ftrive , with wakeful melody , to cheer The fullen gloom , fweet Philome !! like ...
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... fail ? where wit's a fool , Mirth mourns , dreams vanish , laughter drops a tear ? O treach❜rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On rofe and myrtle , lull'd with fyren fong ; While fhe feems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On ...
... fail ? where wit's a fool , Mirth mourns , dreams vanish , laughter drops a tear ? O treach❜rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On rofe and myrtle , lull'd with fyren fong ; While fhe feems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On ...
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... fails ; black - boding man Receives , not fuffers , death's tremendous blow . The knell , the shroud the mattock , and the grave ; The deep damp vault , the darknefs and the worm : Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve , The terrors ...
... fails ; black - boding man Receives , not fuffers , death's tremendous blow . The knell , the shroud the mattock , and the grave ; The deep damp vault , the darknefs and the worm : Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve , The terrors ...
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... fail'd , Or hopes of plaudits from our candid Judge , When , on their exit , fouls are bid unrobe , Tofs Fortune back her tinfel and her plume , And drop this mask of flesh behind the scene . With me , that time is come ; my world is ...
... fail'd , Or hopes of plaudits from our candid Judge , When , on their exit , fouls are bid unrobe , Tofs Fortune back her tinfel and her plume , And drop this mask of flesh behind the scene . With me , that time is come ; my world is ...
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Page 11 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 12 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Page 119 - tis revolution all ; All change ; no death. Day follows night ; and night The dying day ; stars rise, and set, and rise ; Earth takes th
Page 209 - Vain hope ! it is too late! Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and despair!
Page 52 - And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
Page 52 - Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And dust " to dust
Page 110 - Tis a proud mendicant: it boasts and begs; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity.
Page 69 - Talk they of morals ! O thou bleeding Love ! Thou maker of new morals to mankind ! The grand morality is love of Thee.
Page 185 - Each branch of piety delight inspires ; Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next, O'er death's dark gulf, and all its horror hides...
Page 199 - To know the world, not love her, is thy point ; She gives but little, nor that little, long. There is, I grant, a triumph of the...