Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 עמודים |
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עמוד 3
... desire to make the Poem far more useful than it has hitherto been without notes . It has by no means the erudite character of the Paradise Lost , and does not , on this account , stand in so much need of explanatory observations ; but ...
... desire to make the Poem far more useful than it has hitherto been without notes . It has by no means the erudite character of the Paradise Lost , and does not , on this account , stand in so much need of explanatory observations ; but ...
עמוד 5
... desires to employ but a few moments at a time in its perusal . The " Night Thoughts , " not being very closely connected in its component parts , is particularly susceptible of such a division ; and what renders such a division the more ...
... desires to employ but a few moments at a time in its perusal . The " Night Thoughts , " not being very closely connected in its component parts , is particularly susceptible of such a division ; and what renders such a division the more ...
עמוד 10
... desire to learn something of his history and character : if he be a writer of genius , it is advan- tageous to most readers also , to be furnished with a critical account of his writings , as a preparation for reading them with an ...
... desire to learn something of his history and character : if he be a writer of genius , it is advan- tageous to most readers also , to be furnished with a critical account of his writings , as a preparation for reading them with an ...
עמוד 19
... deserving characters . In his desire to obtain the notice and the patronage of greatness , he was not always sufficiently discriminating in regard to another qua- lity , more deserving - that of goodness . If OF EDWARD YOUNG , LL.D. 19.
... deserving characters . In his desire to obtain the notice and the patronage of greatness , he was not always sufficiently discriminating in regard to another qua- lity , more deserving - that of goodness . If OF EDWARD YOUNG , LL.D. 19.
עמוד 22
... desires of fortune seemed to forsake him . The poem already alluded to , and quoted in part , concludes with a " Wish , " some stanzas of which will serve to throw light upon the author's character . They present it under an aspect ...
... desires of fortune seemed to forsake him . The poem already alluded to , and quoted in part , concludes with a " Wish , " some stanzas of which will serve to throw light upon the author's character . They present it under an aspect ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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!
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.