Bell's Edition, Volumes 87-88J. Bell, 1796 |
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... nought ministers delight But what his glowing passions can engage ; And glowing passions , bent on ought below , 130 135 Must , soon or late , with anguish turn the scale ; And anguish after rapture , how severe ! Rapture ? bold man ...
... nought ministers delight But what his glowing passions can engage ; And glowing passions , bent on ought below , 130 135 Must , soon or late , with anguish turn the scale ; And anguish after rapture , how severe ! Rapture ? bold man ...
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... nought ; A nest of pains ; when held as nothing , much . Like some fair hum'rists , life is most enjoy'd When courted least ; most worth when disesteem'd ; Then ' tis the seat of comfort , rich in peace ; In prospect richer far ...
... nought ; A nest of pains ; when held as nothing , much . Like some fair hum'rists , life is most enjoy'd When courted least ; most worth when disesteem'd ; Then ' tis the seat of comfort , rich in peace ; In prospect richer far ...
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... ' Nature's terrours , thus , may be represt , 139 135 149 145 150 Still frowns grim Death ; guilt points the tyrant's spear . And whence all human guilt ? From death forgot . Ah me ! too long I set at nought the 90 THE COMPLAINT .
... ' Nature's terrours , thus , may be represt , 139 135 149 145 150 Still frowns grim Death ; guilt points the tyrant's spear . And whence all human guilt ? From death forgot . Ah me ! too long I set at nought the 90 THE COMPLAINT .
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John Bell. Ah me ! too long I set at nought the swarm Of friendly warnings which around me flew , And smil'd unsmitten . Small my cause to smile ! Earth's admonitions , like shafts upwards shot , More dreadful by delay , the longer ere ...
John Bell. Ah me ! too long I set at nought the swarm Of friendly warnings which around me flew , And smil'd unsmitten . Small my cause to smile ! Earth's admonitions , like shafts upwards shot , More dreadful by delay , the longer ere ...
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... nought to thee ; For others this profusion . Thou apart , Above ! beyond ! Oh tell me , mighty Mind ! Where art thou ? Shall I dive into the deep ? Call to the sun ? or ask the roaring winds For their Creator ? shall I question loud The ...
... nought to thee ; For others this profusion . Thou apart , Above ! beyond ! Oh tell me , mighty Mind ! Where art thou ? Shall I dive into the deep ? Call to the sun ? or ask the roaring winds For their Creator ? shall I question loud The ...
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Page 12 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Page 54 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay ! And happy (if aught happy here) as good ! For fortune fond had built her nest on high.
Page 12 - A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels! O what a miracle to man is man!
Page 48 - Life's grimace, that mistress of the scene! Here real and apparent are the same. You see the man, you see his hold on Heav'n, If sound his virtue, as Philander's sound. Heav'n waits not the last moment; owns her friends On this side death, and points them out to men ; A lecture silent, but of sovereign pow'r! To Vice confusion, and to Virtue peace.
Page 72 - The world's a stately bark, on dangerous seas With pleasure seen, but boarded at our peril : Here on a single plank, thrown safe ashore, I hear the tumult of the distant throng, As that of seas remote, or dying storms, And meditate on scenes more silent still, Pursue my theme, and fight the fear of death.
Page 68 - ... Death is the crown of life : Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life: Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure; we fall, we rise, we reign! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost! This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
Page 12 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A. worm! a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost!
Page 16 - O ye blest scenes of permanent delight! Full above measure! lasting beyond bound! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss. Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end. That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light.
Page 154 - They fail to find what they so plainly see ; Thus men, in shining riches, see the face Of happiness, nor know it is a shade ; But gaze, and touch, and peep, and peep again, And wish, and wonder it is absent still.
Page 22 - 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...