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 sider |
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... round and round In filken thought , which reptile fancy fpun , Till darken'd reafon lay quite clouded o'er With foft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - vifions may befriend , ( as ...
... round and round In filken thought , which reptile fancy fpun , Till darken'd reafon lay quite clouded o'er With foft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - vifions may befriend , ( as ...
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... round In the rich ichor , in the gen'rous blood Of Bacchus , purple god of joyous wit , A brow folute , and ever - laughing eye . He drank long health , and virtue , to his friend ; His friend , who warm'd him more , who more infpir'd ...
... round In the rich ichor , in the gen'rous blood Of Bacchus , purple god of joyous wit , A brow folute , and ever - laughing eye . He drank long health , and virtue , to his friend ; His friend , who warm'd him more , who more infpir'd ...
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... round Eternal ? To climb life's worn heavy wheel , Which draws up nothing new ? To beat , and beat , The beaten track ? To bid each wretched day The former mock ? To furfeit on the fame , And yawn our joys ? or thank a mifery For change ...
... round Eternal ? To climb life's worn heavy wheel , Which draws up nothing new ? To beat , and beat , The beaten track ? To bid each wretched day The former mock ? To furfeit on the fame , And yawn our joys ? or thank a mifery For change ...
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... round ? Have I not made my triple promife good ? Vain is the world ; but only to the vain . To what compare we then this varying fcene , Whose worth ambiguous rifes , and declines ? Waxes , and wanes ? ( in all propitious , night ...
... round ? Have I not made my triple promife good ? Vain is the world ; but only to the vain . To what compare we then this varying fcene , Whose worth ambiguous rifes , and declines ? Waxes , and wanes ? ( in all propitious , night ...
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... round of rays complete : They fet at odds heav'n's jarring attributes ; And , with one excellence , another wound ; Maim Heav'n's perfection , break its equal beams , Bid mercy triumph over - God himself , Undeify'd by their opprobrious ...
... round of rays complete : They fet at odds heav'n's jarring attributes ; And , with one excellence , another wound ; Maim Heav'n's perfection , break its equal beams , Bid mercy triumph over - God himself , Undeify'd by their opprobrious ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.