The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality..A. Millar ... and R. Dodsley, 1750 - 404 pages |
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... ftrange Extremes ? From diffrent Natures marvelously mixt , Connection exquifite of diftant Worlds ! " Diftinguifh'd Link in Being's endlefs Chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A Beam etherial fully'd , and absorbt ! Tho ' fully ...
... ftrange Extremes ? From diffrent Natures marvelously mixt , Connection exquifite of diftant Worlds ! " Diftinguifh'd Link in Being's endlefs Chain ! Midway from Nothing to the Deity ! A Beam etherial fully'd , and absorbt ! Tho ' fully ...
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... ftrange Tears , that trickled down From marble Hearts ! obdurate Tenderness ! A Tenderness that call'd them more fevere ; In Spite of Nature's foft Persuasion , steel'd ; While Nature melted , Superftition rav'd ; That mourn'd the Dead ...
... ftrange Tears , that trickled down From marble Hearts ! obdurate Tenderness ! A Tenderness that call'd them more fevere ; In Spite of Nature's foft Persuasion , steel'd ; While Nature melted , Superftition rav'd ; That mourn'd the Dead ...
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... . And why not think on Death ? Is Life the Theme Of ev'ry Thought ? and Wish of ev'ry Hour ? And Song of ev'ry Joy ? Surprifing Truth ! The The beaten Spaniel's Fondnefs not fo ftrange . To wave 60 The COMPLAINT : Night III .
... . And why not think on Death ? Is Life the Theme Of ev'ry Thought ? and Wish of ev'ry Hour ? And Song of ev'ry Joy ? Surprifing Truth ! The The beaten Spaniel's Fondnefs not fo ftrange . To wave 60 The COMPLAINT : Night III .
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Edward Young. The beaten Spaniel's Fondnefs not fo ftrange . To wave the num'rous Ills that feize on Life As their own Property , their lawful Prey ; Ere Man has measur'd half his weary Stage , His Luxuries have left him no Reserve , No ...
Edward Young. The beaten Spaniel's Fondnefs not fo ftrange . To wave the num'rous Ills that feize on Life As their own Property , their lawful Prey ; Ere Man has measur'd half his weary Stage , His Luxuries have left him no Reserve , No ...
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... ftrange Pangs ! deliver'd of her Dead ? Hell howl'd ; and Heav'n that Hour let fall a Tear ; Heav'n wept , that Men might smile ! Heav'n bled , that Man Might never die And is Devotion Virtue ? ' Tis compell'd : What Heart of Stone but ...
... ftrange Pangs ! deliver'd of her Dead ? Hell howl'd ; and Heav'n that Hour let fall a Tear ; Heav'n wept , that Men might smile ! Heav'n bled , that Man Might never die And is Devotion Virtue ? ' Tis compell'd : What Heart of Stone but ...
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Page 20 - 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 7 - 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 10 - This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death alone, can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free.
Page 20 - 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 73 - 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 165 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich. Poor is the man in debt ; the man of gold, In debt to fortune, trembles at her power.
Page 91 - ... ?—Thou, my all! My theme, my inspiration, and my crown ! My strength in age ! my rise in low estate ! My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth !—my world ! My light in darkness! and my life in death ! My boast through time!
Page 40 - Teaching, we learn; and, giving, we retain The births of intellect ; when dumb, forgot Speech ventilates our intellectual fire ; Speech burnishes our mental magazine , Brightens, for ornament ; and whets, for use.
Page 79 - The prisoner of amaze ! — in his blest life I see the path, and in his death the price, And in his great ascent the proof supreme Of immortality.
Page 128 - While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun ; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.