Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 páginas |
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... objects of pursuit , a restraint upon the appetites and passions , an upward direction to the reason and affections , and a powerful auxiliary to the practice of the duties of religion . Besides all this , the earnest effort to ...
... objects of pursuit , a restraint upon the appetites and passions , an upward direction to the reason and affections , and a powerful auxiliary to the practice of the duties of religion . Besides all this , the earnest effort to ...
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... objects and pursuits : it will also furnish alleviations of the severity of earthly sorrows and disappointments . It will admonish us of the too common vice of every age - an unprofitable , if not universal , waste of time , the value ...
... objects and pursuits : it will also furnish alleviations of the severity of earthly sorrows and disappointments . It will admonish us of the too common vice of every age - an unprofitable , if not universal , waste of time , the value ...
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... objects that are intrin- sically most deserving of it . The author of the present edition has therefore deemed it important to draw up a memoir of Dr. Young , though the materials for it are by no means abundant . He has availed himself ...
... objects that are intrin- sically most deserving of it . The author of the present edition has therefore deemed it important to draw up a memoir of Dr. Young , though the materials for it are by no means abundant . He has availed himself ...
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... objects both of beauty and of deformity , of sublimity and of insignificance . Many a thoughtful and many a pleasant hour has been passed in this endeavour ; but the author enjoys the additional satisfaction of having provided- welcome ...
... objects both of beauty and of deformity , of sublimity and of insignificance . Many a thoughtful and many a pleasant hour has been passed in this endeavour ; but the author enjoys the additional satisfaction of having provided- welcome ...
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... object in this Poem , as is apparent from the title , ( The Complaint , ) was to portray the evils of life , and of course it must be allowed to employ strains of a sombre character . But it abounds in other pictures besides the dark ...
... object in this Poem , as is apparent from the title , ( The Complaint , ) was to portray the evils of life , and of course it must be allowed to employ strains of a sombre character . But it abounds in other pictures besides the dark ...
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admiration Æneid allusion ambition angels art thou beautiful beneath blest bliss charms Christian Cineas creation dæmons dark death Deity delight divine dread dust Earl of Litchfield earth Epicurus eternal ev'ry fable fame fancy fate feel fire flame fond fool future genius give gloomy glorious glory goddess gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heav'n hope hour human immortal indulge infidel life's light live Lorenzo Lucifer man's mankind midnight mind mismeasured moral Narcissa nature nature's ne'er Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Pagan pain Paradise Lost passion peace Philander pleasure poem poet pow'r praise pride proud reason rise sacred satire says scene sense sigh skies smile song soul sphere stars strike sublime taste thee theme thine things Thomas Brown throne tomb triumph truth virtue wing wisdom wise wish wonders wretched Young
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Página 363 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Página 185 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 397 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Página 124 - 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.
Página 363 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Página 270 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Página 77 - 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 ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Página 375 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Página 75 - To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.