Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityWillaim Tegg, 1868 - 301 Seiten |
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... Look down - on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful ...
... Look down - on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful ...
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... looks on me , on all ; that Pow'r who bids This midnight sentinel , with clarion shrill ( Emblem of that which shall awake the dead ) Rouse souls from slumber into thoughts of heav'n . Shall I too weep ? where then is fortitude ? And ...
... looks on me , on all ; that Pow'r who bids This midnight sentinel , with clarion shrill ( Emblem of that which shall awake the dead ) Rouse souls from slumber into thoughts of heav'n . Shall I too weep ? where then is fortitude ? And ...
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... and cure are seen ! see next Time's nature , origin , importance , speed ; And thy great gain from urging his career.— All - sensual man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is 20 THE COMPLAINT .
... and cure are seen ! see next Time's nature , origin , importance , speed ; And thy great gain from urging his career.— All - sensual man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is 20 THE COMPLAINT .
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Edward Young. He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is truly man's : ' tis fortune's - Time's a god . Hast thou ne'er heard of Time's omnipotence ? For , or against , what wonders can he do ! And will : to stand blank neuter he ...
Edward Young. He looks on time as nothing . Nothing else Is truly man's : ' tis fortune's - Time's a god . Hast thou ne'er heard of Time's omnipotence ? For , or against , what wonders can he do ! And will : to stand blank neuter he ...
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... look backward with a smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly : That common but opprobrious lot ! Past hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of ...
... look backward with a smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly : That common but opprobrious lot ! Past hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of ...
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