Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and ImmortalityF. and C. Rivington, 1802 - 361 |
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... hand , he wandered into the enemy's en campment , and had some difficulty to convince them , that he was only an absent , poet and not a spy . Our author seems early to have been enamoured with the Tragic Muse , and with the charms of ...
... hand , he wandered into the enemy's en campment , and had some difficulty to convince them , that he was only an absent , poet and not a spy . Our author seems early to have been enamoured with the Tragic Muse , and with the charms of ...
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... hand , and the other by the left , and led him to the gar den - gate . He then laid his hand upon his heart , and in that expressive manner , for which he was so remarkable , uttered the following lines : Thus Adam look'd when from the ...
... hand , and the other by the left , and led him to the gar den - gate . He then laid his hand upon his heart , and in that expressive manner , for which he was so remarkable , uttered the following lines : Thus Adam look'd when from the ...
Strona ix
... hand to merited oblivion : in which circumstance he deserves both the thanks and imita- tion of posterity . About ... hands . ( See Night III . * I take the liberty of inserting here a passage from a letter written by Mr. W. Taylor ...
... hand to merited oblivion : in which circumstance he deserves both the thanks and imita- tion of posterity . About ... hands . ( See Night III . * I take the liberty of inserting here a passage from a letter written by Mr. W. Taylor ...
Strona xiii
... hands by Dr. Johnson , who says , " It was falsely represented as a proof of decayed faculties . There is Young in every " stanza , such as he often was in his highest vigour . " 66 We now approach the closing scene of our author's life ...
... hands by Dr. Johnson , who says , " It was falsely represented as a proof of decayed faculties . There is Young in every " stanza , such as he often was in his highest vigour . " 66 We now approach the closing scene of our author's life ...
Strona 14
... hand of charity ! To shock us more , solicit it in vain ! Ye silken sons of pleasure ! since in pains You rue more modish visits , visit here , And breathe from your debauch : Give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : But so great ...
... hand of charity ! To shock us more , solicit it in vain ! Ye silken sons of pleasure ! since in pains You rue more modish visits , visit here , And breathe from your debauch : Give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : But so great ...
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Æther ambition angels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless call'd charms creation dæmons dark death deep DEITY delight deny'd divine Dost dread dust EARL OF LITCHFIELD earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human illustrious life's light live LORENZO man's mankind midnight mind mortal NARCISSA nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passion peace PHILANDER pleasure pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars stings storm strange strike thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Winchester College wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched
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Strona 18 - 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.
Strona 19 - 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.
Strona 12 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Strona xi - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Strona 8 - 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 ! О what a miracle to man is man.
Strona 6 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Strona 18 - 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.
Strona 9 - This is the desert, this the solitude : How populous, how vital, is the grave! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed?
Strona 72 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
Strona 264 - Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw, What nothing less than angel can exceed, A man on earth devoted to the skies ; Like ships at sea, while in, above the world. With aspect mild, and elevated eye, Behold him seated on a mount serene, Above the fogs of sense, and passion's storm ; All the black cares, and tumults, of this life, (Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet) Excite his pity, not impair his peace.