The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four Volumes, Volume 3D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, J. Rivington, S. Crowder and Company, C. Corbett, J. Jackson, R. and J. Dodsley, and J. Richardson., 1762 |
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... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull fleep inftructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their lofs deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel diftrefs ...
... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull fleep inftructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their lofs deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel diftrefs ...
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... Eternal funfhine in the ftorms of life ? How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ? Joy behind joy , in endless perfpective ! · Till at death's toll , whofe reflefs iron tongue : Calls daily ...
... Eternal funfhine in the ftorms of life ? How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ? Joy behind joy , in endless perfpective ! · Till at death's toll , whofe reflefs iron tongue : Calls daily ...
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... eternal fchemes , As we the fatal fifters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as fudden , not as fafe ! As ...
... eternal fchemes , As we the fatal fifters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as fudden , not as fafe ! As ...
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... Eternal war with woe . Who bears it beft , Deferves it leaft . -On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine ...
... Eternal war with woe . Who bears it beft , Deferves it leaft . -On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine ...
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... dreamers of gay dreams ! How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch expedients fail ? O treach'rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On C 3 0 On Time , Death , Friendship . 29 Man flies from Time, and Time from man; ...
... dreamers of gay dreams ! How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch expedients fail ? O treach'rous Confcience ! while fhe feems to fleep On C 3 0 On Time , Death , Friendship . 29 Man flies from Time, and Time from man; ...
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Page 72 - These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Page 18 - 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 - 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 19 - 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 9 - 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 41 - Can gold gain friendship ? Impudence of hope ! As well mere man an angel might beget. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. Lorenzo ! pride repress ; nor hope to find A friend, but what has found a friend in thee. All like the purchase ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends such miracles below.
Page 52 - 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...
Page 36 - 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 168 - 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 52 - Transfixt by fate (who loves a lofty mark) How from the summit of the grove she fell, And left it unharmonious ! All its charms Extinguisht in the wonders of her song ! Her song still vibrates in my ravisht ear, Still melting there, and with voluptuous pain (O to forget her !) thrilling thro...