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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... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel distress ...
... eternal day . For human weal , heav'n husbands all events ; Dull sleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not lost ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel distress ...
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... Eternal sunshine in the storms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perspective ; Till at death's toll , whose restless iron tongue Calls daily for ...
... Eternal sunshine in the storms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perspective ; Till at death's toll , whose restless iron tongue Calls daily for ...
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... eternal schemes , As we the fatal sisters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ! As ...
... eternal schemes , As we the fatal sisters could out - spin , And , big with life's futurities , expire . Not ev'n PHILANDER had bespoke his shroud . Nor had he cause ; a warning was deny'd : How many fall as sudden , not as safe ! As ...
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... terms on which he sees the light : He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe . Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes , I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee ,
... terms on which he sees the light : He that is born , is listed ; life is war ; Eternal war with woe . Who bears it best , Deserves it least . - On other themes , I'll dwell . LORENZO ! let me turn my thoughts on thee ,
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... eternal night , Where such expedients fail ? 2 O treach'rous Conscience ! while she seems to sleep On rose and myrtle , lull'd with syren song ; While she seems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein ...
... eternal night , Where such expedients fail ? 2 O treach'rous Conscience ! while she seems to sleep On rose and myrtle , lull'd with syren song ; While she seems , nodding o'er her charge , to drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein ...
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