The Complaint, Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityPeter Wilson, 1766 - 263 páginas |
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... birth . A pow'r ethereal , only not ador'd . Ah ! how unjust to Nature , and himself , Is thoughtless , thanklefs , inconfiftent man ? Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We cenfure Nature for a span too fhort ; That fpan ...
... birth . A pow'r ethereal , only not ador'd . Ah ! how unjust to Nature , and himself , Is thoughtless , thanklefs , inconfiftent man ? Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We cenfure Nature for a span too fhort ; That fpan ...
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... birth , When the dread Sire , on emanation bent , And big with Nature , rifing in his might , Call'd forth creation , ( for then Time was born ) , By Godhead ftreaming through a thousand worlds ; ` Not on these terms , from the great ...
... birth , When the dread Sire , on emanation bent , And big with Nature , rifing in his might , Call'd forth creation , ( for then Time was born ) , By Godhead ftreaming through a thousand worlds ; ` Not on these terms , from the great ...
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... birth , bloom , bursts of bliss . O feaft indeed luxurious ! Earth , vile earth ! In all the glories of a God array'd ! : What need I more ? O Death , the palm is thine , Then welcome , Death ; thy dreaded harbingers , Age and Difeafe ...
... birth , bloom , bursts of bliss . O feaft indeed luxurious ! Earth , vile earth ! In all the glories of a God array'd ! : What need I more ? O Death , the palm is thine , Then welcome , Death ; thy dreaded harbingers , Age and Difeafe ...
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... birth- Darknefs his curtain , and his bed the duft ; When stars and fun are duft beneath his throne ! In heav'n itself can fuch indulgence dwell ? O what a groan was there ! a groan not his . He feiz'd our dreadful right ; the load ...
... birth- Darknefs his curtain , and his bed the duft ; When stars and fun are duft beneath his throne ! In heav'n itself can fuch indulgence dwell ? O what a groan was there ! a groan not his . He feiz'd our dreadful right ; the load ...
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... own . The nameless He , whose nod is Nature's birth And Nature's fhield , the fhadow of his hand ; Her diffolution , his fufpended fmile ; The great Firft - Laft ! pavilion'd high he fits 64 THE COMPLAINT . Night 4 .
... own . The nameless He , whose nod is Nature's birth And Nature's fhield , the fhadow of his hand ; Her diffolution , his fufpended fmile ; The great Firft - Laft ! pavilion'd high he fits 64 THE COMPLAINT . Night 4 .
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