Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 sidor |
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... hands be still stretched out , Trembling , at once , with eagerness and age ? With avarice , and convulsions , grasping hand ? Man wants but little , nor that little long . " It is not then a useless labor to prepare this edition of the ...
... hands be still stretched out , Trembling , at once , with eagerness and age ? With avarice , and convulsions , grasping hand ? Man wants but little , nor that little long . " It is not then a useless labor to prepare this edition of the ...
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... hand upon his breast , and in that expressive manner for which he was ever remarkable , he poured forth impromptu the fol- lowing lines : - " Thus Adam look'd when from the garden driven , And thus disputed orders sent from heaven ...
... hand upon his breast , and in that expressive manner for which he was ever remarkable , he poured forth impromptu the fol- lowing lines : - " Thus Adam look'd when from the garden driven , And thus disputed orders sent from heaven ...
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... hand , and beg me come to - morrow ! Refusal ! can'st thou wear a smoother form ? Twice told the period spent on stubborn Troy , Court - favour , yet untaken , I besiege ; Ambition's ill - judged effort to be rich . Alas ! ambition ...
... hand , and beg me come to - morrow ! Refusal ! can'st thou wear a smoother form ? Twice told the period spent on stubborn Troy , Court - favour , yet untaken , I besiege ; Ambition's ill - judged effort to be rich . Alas ! ambition ...
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... hands So P thought think better if you can . ” It must be added , however , that in composing the last lines of the poem he manifests a weariness of courting earthly patrons , and wisely counsels his soul to direct its regards to a more ...
... hands So P thought think better if you can . ” It must be added , however , that in composing the last lines of the poem he manifests a weariness of courting earthly patrons , and wisely counsels his soul to direct its regards to a more ...
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... hand was extended to draw him from that retirement of which he declared himself enamoured . As Croft further remarks - he who retires from the world will find himself in reality deserted as fast , if not faster , by the world . The ...
... hand was extended to draw him from that retirement of which he declared himself enamoured . As Croft further remarks - he who retires from the world will find himself in reality deserted as fast , if not faster , by the world . The ...
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admiration Æneid allusion ambition angels art thou beautiful beneath blest bliss charms Christian Cineas creation dæmons dark death Deity delight divine dread dust Earl of Litchfield earth Epicurus eternal ev'ry fable fame fancy fate feel fire flame fond fool future genius give gloomy glorious glory goddess gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human immortal indulge infidel life's light live Lorenzo Lucifer man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured moral Narcissa nature nature's ne'er Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Pagan pain Paradise Lost passion peace Philander pleasure poem poet pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred satire says scene sense sigh skies smile song soul sphere stars strike sublime taste thee theme thine things Thomas Brown throne tomb triumph truth virtue wing wisdom wise wish wonders wretched Young
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Sida 363 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Sida 185 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Sida 397 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Sida 124 - 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.
Sida 363 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Sida 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Sida 270 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Sida 77 - 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 ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Sida 375 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Sida 75 - To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.