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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... throne , In raylefs majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden fceptre o'er a flumb'ring world . 20 Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ! Nor eye , nor listening ear , an object finds : Creation fleeps . ' Tis as the general ...
... throne , In raylefs majefty , now ftretches forth Her leaden fceptre o'er a flumb'ring world . 20 Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ! Nor eye , nor listening ear , an object finds : Creation fleeps . ' Tis as the general ...
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... gather immortality On life's fair tree , faft by the throne of God ; What golden joys ambrofial cluft'ring glow In HIS full beam , and ripen for the juft ! Where momentary ages are no more ! ¡ pire ! THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT I.
... gather immortality On life's fair tree , faft by the throne of God ; What golden joys ambrofial cluft'ring glow In HIS full beam , and ripen for the juft ! Where momentary ages are no more ! ¡ pire ! THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT I.
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... Thrones will then be toys , And earth and skies feem duft upon the fcale . Redeem we time ? -Its lofs we dearly buy . What pleads Lo ENZO for his high - priz'd fports ? He pleads Time's numerous blanks ; he loudly pleads The fraw - like ...
... Thrones will then be toys , And earth and skies feem duft upon the fcale . Redeem we time ? -Its lofs we dearly buy . What pleads Lo ENZO for his high - priz'd fports ? He pleads Time's numerous blanks ; he loudly pleads The fraw - like ...
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... thrones which shall not mourn their masters chang'd , Tho ' we from earth ; ethereal , they that fell . Such veneration due , O man ! to man . Who venerate themselves , the world defpife . For what , gay friend ! is this efcutcheon'd ...
... thrones which shall not mourn their masters chang'd , Tho ' we from earth ; ethereal , they that fell . Such veneration due , O man ! to man . Who venerate themselves , the world defpife . For what , gay friend ! is this efcutcheon'd ...
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... throne , What transport thine , to fee ? what zeal to fing ? Sing first , and fend it through the fouls of men ; And fend through theirs with eafe , if from our own . Nor haft thou fung in vain : PHILANDER hears , LORENZO feels thy fong ...
... throne , What transport thine , to fee ? what zeal to fing ? Sing first , and fend it through the fouls of men ; And fend through theirs with eafe , if from our own . Nor haft thou fung in vain : PHILANDER hears , LORENZO feels thy fong ...
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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...