The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality ... Carefully CorrectedMillar, and Dodsley, 1758 - 322 Seiten |
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... number'd with the dead . This is the defart , this the folitude : How populous ! how vital , is the grave ! This is creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the fad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All ...
... number'd with the dead . This is the defart , this the folitude : How populous ! how vital , is the grave ! This is creation's melancholy vault , The vale funereal , the fad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions , empty shades ! All ...
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... numbers groan for fad admission there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high - fed , Sollicit the cold hand of charity ! To fhock us more , follicit it in vain ! Ye filken fons of pleasure ! fince in pains You rue more modish ...
... numbers groan for fad admission there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high - fed , Sollicit the cold hand of charity ! To fhock us more , follicit it in vain ! Ye filken fons of pleasure ! fince in pains You rue more modish ...
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... numbers this is certain ; the reverfe Is fure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock of adamant we build Our mountain hopes ! fpin out eternal schemes , As we the fatal fifters cou'd out ...
... numbers this is certain ; the reverfe Is fure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock of adamant we build Our mountain hopes ! fpin out eternal schemes , As we the fatal fifters cou'd out ...
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... ; when dumb , forgot . Speech ventilates our intellectual fire ; Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; Brightens for ornament ; and whets , for use . What numbers , fheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung❜d 36 THE COMPLAINT . Night 2 .
... ; when dumb , forgot . Speech ventilates our intellectual fire ; Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; Brightens for ornament ; and whets , for use . What numbers , fheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung❜d 36 THE COMPLAINT . Night 2 .
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Edward Young. What numbers , fheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung❜d to the hilts in venerable tomes , And rusted in ; who might have born an edge , And play'd a sprightly beam , if born to speech ; If born bleft heirs of half their ...
Edward Young. What numbers , fheath'd in erudition , lie , Plung❜d to the hilts in venerable tomes , And rusted in ; who might have born an edge , And play'd a sprightly beam , if born to speech ; If born bleft heirs of half their ...
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