Night ThoughtsC. Whittingham, 1798 - 386 ページ |
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... truths . His characters are often " selected with discernment , and drawn with nicety ; " his illustrations are often happy , and his reflections " often just . His species of satire is between those " of HORACE and JUVENAL ; and he has ...
... truths . His characters are often " selected with discernment , and drawn with nicety ; " his illustrations are often happy , and his reflections " often just . His species of satire is between those " of HORACE and JUVENAL ; and he has ...
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... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance pour'd On ...
... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance pour'd On ...
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... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance pour'd On ...
... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance pour'd On ...
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... truth , Best found , so sought ; to the recluse more coy ! Thoughts disentangle , passing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tie up nonsense for a song ; Song , fashionably fruitless ; such as ...
... truth , Best found , so sought ; to the recluse more coy ! Thoughts disentangle , passing o'er the lip ; Clean runs the thread ; if not , ' tis thrown away , Or kept to tie up nonsense for a song ; Song , fashionably fruitless ; such as ...
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... his friends ? Shame to mankind ! PHILANDER had his foes ; He felt the truths I sing , and I in him : But he nor I feel more . Past ills , NARCISSA ! 205 210 210 215 220 Are sunk in thee , thou recent wound of heart 48 THE COMPLAINT .
... his friends ? Shame to mankind ! PHILANDER had his foes ; He felt the truths I sing , and I in him : But he nor I feel more . Past ills , NARCISSA ! 205 210 210 215 220 Are sunk in thee , thou recent wound of heart 48 THE COMPLAINT .
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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 ページ - 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 ページ - 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 ページ - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust?
13 ページ - 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 ページ - 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 ページ - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
59 ページ - 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 ページ - 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 ページ - 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 ページ - 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.