The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JobR. Chapman and A. Duncan, 1775 - 388 pages |
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... kind . That , nature's first , last lesson to mankind ; The selfish heart deferves the pain it feels . More generous forrow , while it finks , exalts ; And confcious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue , more than prudence , bids me ...
... kind . That , nature's first , last lesson to mankind ; The selfish heart deferves the pain it feels . More generous forrow , while it finks , exalts ; And confcious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue , more than prudence , bids me ...
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... kind nature keeps a school , To teach her fons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew ; each day , a life ! And shall we kill each day ? if trifling kills ; Sure vice muft butcher . O what heaps of flain Cry out for ...
... kind nature keeps a school , To teach her fons herself . Each night we die , Each morn are born anew ; each day , a life ! And shall we kill each day ? if trifling kills ; Sure vice muft butcher . O what heaps of flain Cry out for ...
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... they might have borne more welcome news . Their answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend , her beft ; if not , worst foe . C O reconcile them ! kind experience cries , There's nothing NIGHT THE SECOND . 33.
... they might have borne more welcome news . Their answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend , her beft ; if not , worst foe . C O reconcile them ! kind experience cries , There's nothing NIGHT THE SECOND . 33.
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... kind experience cries , There's nothing here , but what as nothing weighs ; The more our joy , the more we know it vain ; And by fuccefs are tutor❜d to defpair . ' Nor is it only thus , but must be fo . Who knows not this , though gray ...
... kind experience cries , There's nothing here , but what as nothing weighs ; The more our joy , the more we know it vain ; And by fuccefs are tutor❜d to defpair . ' Nor is it only thus , but must be fo . Who knows not this , though gray ...
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... kind , that struck our latent truth , Best found , fo fought ; to the reclufe more coy ! Thoughts difintangle paffing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tye up nonfenfe for a fong ; Song ...
... kind , that struck our latent truth , Best found , fo fought ; to the reclufe more coy ! Thoughts difintangle paffing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tye up nonfenfe for a fong ; Song ...
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Page 16 - 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 17 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 16 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Page 5 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 33 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 85 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
Page 17 - ... 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 16 - How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodg'd in their own hands is Folly's vails ; That lodg'd in Fate's to wisdom they consign ; The thing they can't but purpose they postpone.
Page 103 - Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature suffers in the crowd, Nor touches on the world, without a stain : The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn.
Page 7 - Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man. Yet man, fool man ! here buries all his thoughts ; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh.