Night ThoughtsC. Whittingham, 1798 - 386 oldal |
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22. oldal
... lights on lids unsully'd with a tear . From short ( as usual ) and disturb'd repose I wake - How happy they , who wake no more ! Yet that were vain , if dreams infest the grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams 5 Tumultuous ...
... lights on lids unsully'd with a tear . From short ( as usual ) and disturb'd repose I wake - How happy they , who wake no more ! Yet that were vain , if dreams infest the grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams 5 Tumultuous ...
22. oldal
... light , The future embryo , slumb'ring in his sire . Embryos we must be , till we burst the shell , Yon ambient azure shell , and spring to life , The life of gods , ( O transport ! ) and of man . 125 130 Yet Man , fool Man ! here ...
... light , The future embryo , slumb'ring in his sire . Embryos we must be , till we burst the shell , Yon ambient azure shell , and spring to life , The life of gods , ( O transport ! ) and of man . 125 130 Yet Man , fool Man ! here ...
22. oldal
... light . Safe are you lodg'd above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath . Here teems with revolutions ev'ry hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best , More mortal ...
... light . Safe are you lodg'd above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath . Here teems with revolutions ev'ry hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best , More mortal ...
22. oldal
... light ; He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe . Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit ...
... light ; He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe . Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit ...
29. oldal
... Light , as the summer's dust , we take in air A moment's giddy flight , and fall again ; Join the dull mass , increase the trodden soil , And sleep till Earth herself shall be no more , 395 Since then ( as emmets , their small world o ...
... Light , as the summer's dust , we take in air A moment's giddy flight , and fall again ; Join the dull mass , increase the trodden soil , And sleep till Earth herself shall be no more , 395 Since then ( as emmets , their small world o ...
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æther ambition angels archangels art thou awful beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless charms Christian creation dæmons dark Death deep Deity deny'd divine Dost dread dream dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart Heav'n High Holborn hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light Line live LORENZO Man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal NARCISSA Nature Nature's ne'er night NIGHT THOUGHTS nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passions peace PHILANDER Pleasure poison'd pow'r praise pride proud Reason rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sov'reign sphere stars stings strange strike sublime thee theme thine thought throne tomb triumph truth Virtue Virtue's WINCHESTER COLLEGE wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched
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22. oldal - 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.
28. oldal - 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.
22. oldal - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust?
13. oldal - 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.
22. oldal - An heir of glory'! a frail child of dust*! Helpless immortal'! insect infinite*! A worm'! a god*! — I tremble' at myself, And in myself am lost*!
16. oldal - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
59. oldal - When in this vale of years I backward look, And miss such numbers, numbers too of such, Firmer in health, and greener in their age, And stricter on their guard, and fitter far To play life's subtle game, I scarce believe I still survive...
22. oldal - 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 ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy!
13. oldal - 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.
22. oldal - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.