The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & ImmortalityPeter Wilson, 1747 - 321 páginas |
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... shall we then , for Virtue's fake , commence- Apoftates ? and turn Infidels for Joy ? A Truth it is , Few doubt , but Fewer truft , " He fins against this Life , who flights the next . ” What is this Life ? How Few their Fav'rite know ...
... shall we then , for Virtue's fake , commence- Apoftates ? and turn Infidels for Joy ? A Truth it is , Few doubt , but Fewer truft , " He fins against this Life , who flights the next . ” What is this Life ? How Few their Fav'rite know ...
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... shall not feel ; Life , Ills fubftantial , Wisdom cannot shun : Is not the mighty Mind , that Son of Heav'n ! By Tyrant Life dethron'd , imprison'd , pain'd ? By Death enlarg'd , ennobled , deify'd ? Death but entombs the Body ? Life ...
... shall not feel ; Life , Ills fubftantial , Wisdom cannot shun : Is not the mighty Mind , that Son of Heav'n ! By Tyrant Life dethron'd , imprison'd , pain'd ? By Death enlarg'd , ennobled , deify'd ? Death but entombs the Body ? Life ...
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... Shall I dare fay , Peculiar is the Fate ? I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot . An Object ever preffing dims the Sight , And hides behind its Ardor to be seen : When in his Courtiers Ears I pour my Plaint , They drink it , as the ...
... Shall I dare fay , Peculiar is the Fate ? I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot . An Object ever preffing dims the Sight , And hides behind its Ardor to be seen : When in his Courtiers Ears I pour my Plaint , They drink it , as the ...
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... human Ruins , tott'ring o'er the Grave ! Shall we , fhall aged Men , like aged Trees , Strike deeper their vile Root , and closer cling , Strike Or , NIGHT - THOUGHTS , & c . 61 Wishing, that conftant Hectick of a Fool; ...
... human Ruins , tott'ring o'er the Grave ! Shall we , fhall aged Men , like aged Trees , Strike deeper their vile Root , and closer cling , Strike Or , NIGHT - THOUGHTS , & c . 61 Wishing, that conftant Hectick of a Fool; ...
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... Shall our pale , wither'd Hands be still stretch'd out , Trembling , at once , with Eagerness and Age ? With Av❜rice , and Convulfions grasping hard ; Grafping at Air ! for what has Earth befide ? Man wants but Little ; nor that Little ...
... Shall our pale , wither'd Hands be still stretch'd out , Trembling , at once , with Eagerness and Age ? With Av❜rice , and Convulfions grasping hard ; Grafping at Air ! for what has Earth befide ? Man wants but Little ; nor that Little ...
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The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death,&immortality. The ..., Volume 2 Edward Young Visualização completa - 1749 |
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Æther againſt Ambition Angels art thou Becauſe beneath beſt Bleffings bleft Blifs Bliſs bluſh Boaft Bofom boundleſs Breaft Caufe Cauſe Chimæras Dæmons dark Darkneſs Death defcend DEITY Divine doft dreadful Duft Earth endleſs Eternity ev'ry facred Fame Fate feen fhall fhines fhould firft Firſt Flame fleeps fome Fool foon Friend ftill ftrikes ftrong fuch fure Glory Grave Guilt Happineſs Heart Heav'n Himſelf Hour human illuftrious Immortal inſpire Juft laft lefs Life's loft LORENZO Love Luftre Man's Mankind moft mortal moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's ne'er Night nought Numbers o'er Paffion paft Pain Peace Pleaſure Pow'r Praiſe Prefent Pride proud Reaſon Reft rife Scene Senfe Senſe ſhall ſhines Skies Song Soul ſpeaks Stars ſtill thee Thefe Theme themſelves Theſe Thine Thofe thoſe Thought thouſand thro Throne Truth Univerſe vaft Virtue Virtue's whofe whoſe Wife Wing Wiſdom Wiſh World wretched