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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... turn of his mind leading him to divinity , he quitted the law , which he had never practif- ed , and taking orders , was appointed chaplain in ordi- nary to King George II . April 1728. , In that year he published a Vindication of ...
... turn of his mind leading him to divinity , he quitted the law , which he had never practif- ed , and taking orders , was appointed chaplain in ordi- nary to King George II . April 1728. , In that year he published a Vindication of ...
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... turn at St. James's ; for , though he ftrove to gain the at- tention of his audience , when he found he could not prevail , his pity for their folly got the better of all de- corum ; he fat back in the pulpit , and burft into a flood of ...
... turn at St. James's ; for , though he ftrove to gain the at- tention of his audience , when he found he could not prevail , his pity for their folly got the better of all de- corum ; he fat back in the pulpit , and burft into a flood of ...
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... turn of his mind was naturally folemn ; and he ufually , when at home in the country , fpent many hours in a day walking along the tombs in his own church - yard ; His converfation as well as writings , had all a reference to a future ...
... turn of his mind was naturally folemn ; and he ufually , when at home in the country , fpent many hours in a day walking along the tombs in his own church - yard ; His converfation as well as writings , had all a reference to a future ...
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... turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . Not Happiness itself makes good her name ; Our very wishes give us not our wish ; How diftant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for which we doat , felicity ? The Smootheft ...
... turns , And his guard falling , crushes him to death . Not Happiness itself makes good her name ; Our very wishes give us not our wish ; How diftant oft the thing we doat on most , From that for which we doat , felicity ? The Smootheft ...
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... turns - Oft , the firft inftant ; its idea fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The prefent moment terminates our fight ; Clouds , thick as those on doomsday , drown the next We penetrate , we prophefy in vain . Time is ...
... turns - Oft , the firft inftant ; its idea fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The prefent moment terminates our fight ; Clouds , thick as those on doomsday , drown the next We penetrate , we prophefy in vain . Time 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...