The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the Life of the Author [signed: G. W.]Thomas Tegg, 1815 - 312 psl. |
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... 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 , is man ! How passing wonder HE , who made ...
... 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 , is man ! How passing wonder HE , who made ...
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... dread ! Alternately transported , and alarm'd ! What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there . " Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof ...
... dread ! Alternately transported , and alarm'd ! What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there . " Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof ...
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... dread But their hearts wounded , like the wounded air , Soon close ; where past the shaft , no trace is found . As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of ...
... dread But their hearts wounded , like the wounded air , Soon close ; where past the shaft , no trace is found . As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of ...
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... dread ; death thus more dreadf made ; O what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes of our chariot wheels ; How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain It makes us wander ; wander earth ...
... dread ; death thus more dreadf made ; O what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes of our chariot wheels ; How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain It makes us wander ; wander earth ...
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... DREAD SIRE , on emanation bent , And big with nature , rising in his might , Call'd forth Creation ( for then Time was born ) By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms from the great days of heaven , From old ...
... DREAD SIRE , on emanation bent , And big with nature , rising in his might , Call'd forth Creation ( for then Time was born ) By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms from the great days of heaven , From old ...
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