T. Abbts vermischte Werke, Nide 6

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Sivu 103 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains...
Sivu 115 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Sivu 185 - Sieges, Retreats, Attacks, Undermines, Countermines, Bombardments, Sea-fights; Ships sunk with a Thousand Men; twenty Thousand killed on each Side; dying Groans, Limbs flying in the Air: Smoak, Noise, Confusion, trampling to Death under Horses...
Sivu 185 - I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies come down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.
Sivu 115 - ... moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn in it like marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here inquire...
Sivu 46 - And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear. From fhort (as ufual) and difturb'd repofe, I wake : how happy they, who wake no more ! Yet that were vain, if dreams infeft the grave. I wake, emerging from a fea of dreams Tumultuous; where my wreck'd defponding thought, From wave to wave of fancy'd mifery, At random drove, her helm of Reafon loft; Tho...

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