The Complaint, Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityPeter Wilson, 1766 - 263 páginas |
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... o'er a flumb'ring world . Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ! Nor eye , nor lift'ning ear an object finds : Creation fleeps . ' Tis as the general pulfe Of life ftood still , and Nature made a paufe .; An awful paufe ...
... o'er a flumb'ring world . Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ! Nor eye , nor lift'ning ear an object finds : Creation fleeps . ' Tis as the general pulfe Of life ftood still , and Nature made a paufe .; An awful paufe ...
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... o'er the rifing ball ; O THOU ! whofe word from folid Darkness ftruck That Ipark , the sun ; strike wisdom from my foul ; My foul which flies to thee , her truft , her treafure , As mifers to their gold , while others reft . Through ...
... o'er the rifing ball ; O THOU ! whofe word from folid Darkness ftruck That Ipark , the sun ; strike wisdom from my foul ; My foul which flies to thee , her truft , her treafure , As mifers to their gold , while others reft . Through ...
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... o'er my limbs Sleep's foft dominion's spread , What tho my foul phantaftic meafures trod O'er fairy fields ; or mourn'd along the gloom Of pathlefs woods ; or , down the craggy steep Hurl'd headlong , fwam with pain the mantled pool ...
... o'er my limbs Sleep's foft dominion's spread , What tho my foul phantaftic meafures trod O'er fairy fields ; or mourn'd along the gloom Of pathlefs woods ; or , down the craggy steep Hurl'd headlong , fwam with pain the mantled pool ...
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... o'er With foft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - visions may befriend , ( as fung above ) : Our waking dreams are fatal : how I dreamt Of things impoffible ! ( could fleep do more ...
... o'er With foft conceit of endless comfort here , Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night - visions may befriend , ( as fung above ) : Our waking dreams are fatal : how I dreamt Of things impoffible ! ( could fleep do more ...
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... o'er the pleasing past : In queft of wretchedness perverfely strays ; And finds all defert now ; and meets the ghofts Of my departed joys , a numerous train ! I rue the riches of my former fate ; Sweet Comfort's blasted clusters . I ...
... o'er the pleasing past : In queft of wretchedness perverfely strays ; And finds all defert now ; and meets the ghofts Of my departed joys , a numerous train ! I rue the riches of my former fate ; Sweet Comfort's blasted clusters . I ...
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