The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four Volumes, Nide 3D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, J. Rivington, S. Crowder and Company, C. Corbett, J. Jackson, R. and J. Dodsley, and J. Richardson., 1762 |
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Sivu 9
... skies ! Night - vifions may befriend ( as fung above ) :: Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impoffible ? ( Could fleep do more ? ) , Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ? Of ftable pleafures on the toffing wave ...
... skies ! Night - vifions may befriend ( as fung above ) :: Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impoffible ? ( Could fleep do more ? ) , Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ? Of ftable pleafures on the toffing wave ...
Sivu 23
... Will Toys amufe ? No : Thrones will then be toys , And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale . Redeem we time - Its lofs we dearly buy . What What pleads LORENZO for his high - priz'd sports ? On Time , Death , Friendship . 23.
... Will Toys amufe ? No : Thrones will then be toys , And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale . Redeem we time - Its lofs we dearly buy . What What pleads LORENZO for his high - priz'd sports ? On Time , Death , Friendship . 23.
Sivu 28
... skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings around him , as he ...
... skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings around him , as he ...
Sivu 32
... 'd ; Renounc'd all correfpondence with the skies ; Our freedom chain'd ; quite winglefs our defire ; In fenfe dark - prifon'd all that ought to foar ; Prone Prone to the centre ; crawling in the duft ; 32 The COMPLAINT . Night 2 .
... 'd ; Renounc'd all correfpondence with the skies ; Our freedom chain'd ; quite winglefs our defire ; In fenfe dark - prifon'd all that ought to foar ; Prone Prone to the centre ; crawling in the duft ; 32 The COMPLAINT . Night 2 .
Sivu 34
... skies ! ) As man's defpotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn From From bofom , bleeding o'er the facred dead ...
... skies ! ) As man's defpotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn From From bofom , bleeding o'er the facred dead ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
againſt ambition angels art thou Becauſe beneath bleffings bleft blifs caufe cauſe chimæras dæmons dark darkneſs death defcend Deity divine Doft dread duft earth endleſs eternal Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe fame fate fcene feen fenfe fhades fhall fhines fhould figh fight fing fink fkies fleeps fmile foft fome fong fool foon foul immortal ftill ftorm ftrange ftrike fuch fupreme fure glory grave guilt happineſs heart heav'n himſelf hope hour human illuftrious infidel itſelf juft lefs life's loft LORENZO man's mankind moft mortal moſt muft muſt nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffion pain peace pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe prefent pride proud reafon rife ſcene ſenſe ſhall ſkies ſpeaks ſphere ſtill thee thefe theme theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro throne tomb truth virtue virtue's whofe wife wiſdom wiſh worfe wretched
Suositut otteet
Sivu 72 - These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 7 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Sivu 19 - 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.
Sivu 9 - This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death alone, can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free.
Sivu 41 - Can gold gain friendship ? Impudence of hope ! As well mere man an angel might beget. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. Lorenzo ! pride repress ; nor hope to find A friend, but what has found a friend in thee. All like the purchase ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends such miracles below.
Sivu 52 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young , And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! And happy (if aught happy here) as good...
Sivu 36 - 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.
Sivu 168 - tis revolution all ; All change ; no death. Day follows night ; and night The dying day ; stars rise, and set, and rise ; Earth takes th
Sivu 52 - Transfixt by fate (who loves a lofty mark) How from the summit of the grove she fell, And left it unharmonious ! All its charms Extinguisht in the wonders of her song ! Her song still vibrates in my ravisht ear, Still melting there, and with voluptuous pain (O to forget her !) thrilling thro...