Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityJ. Walker and Company; J. Richardson; F. C. and J. Rivington; Law and Whittaker; J. Nunn; Newman and Company; Lackington and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; ... [and nine others], 1816 - 268 sider |
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Side 1
... sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the gen'ral pulse B Of life stood still , and nature made a pause THE COMPLAINT. ...
... sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the gen'ral pulse B Of life stood still , and nature made a pause THE COMPLAINT. ...
Side 4
... creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the sad cypress gloom , The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All , all on earth is shadow , all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all where change shall ...
... creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the sad cypress gloom , The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All , all on earth is shadow , all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all where change shall ...
Side 18
... creation ( for then Time was born ) By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heav'n , From old Eternity's mysterious orb Was Time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The skies ...
... creation ( for then Time was born ) By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heav'n , From old Eternity's mysterious orb Was Time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The skies ...
Side 20
... creation labours ! -labours more ? And is there in creation , what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd dispatch , And ardent energy , supinely yawns ? -- Man sleeps , and man alone ; and man whose fate , Fate irreversible , entire ...
... creation labours ! -labours more ? And is there in creation , what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd dispatch , And ardent energy , supinely yawns ? -- Man sleeps , and man alone ; and man whose fate , Fate irreversible , entire ...
Side 30
... creation has no more . Or if we wish a fourth , it is a friend . But friends , how mortal ! dangerous the desire . Take Phoebus to yourselves , ye basking bards ! Inebriate at fair Fortune's fountain - head ; And reeling through the ...
... creation has no more . Or if we wish a fourth , it is a friend . But friends , how mortal ! dangerous the desire . Take Phoebus to yourselves , ye basking bards ! Inebriate at fair Fortune's fountain - head ; And reeling through the ...
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adore ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast book of Job boundless call'd canst creation dæmons dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust e'er earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fate fire flame fond fool gaze give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious indulge infidels know'st life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mismeasured mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence orbs pain passion peace Philander pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere stars stings storm tempest thee theme thine thought throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's wing wisdom wise wonder wretched