Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 80
עמוד 7
... praise . Uninjured from our praise can He escape , Who , disembosom'd from the Father , bows The heaven of heavens , to kiss the distant earth ! Breathes out in agonies a sinless soul ! Against the Cross Death's iron sceptre breaks ...
... praise . Uninjured from our praise can He escape , Who , disembosom'd from the Father , bows The heaven of heavens , to kiss the distant earth ! Breathes out in agonies a sinless soul ! Against the Cross Death's iron sceptre breaks ...
עמוד 13
... , many years after thus portrayed : " Wharton , the scorn and wonder of our days , Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise Women and fools must like him or he dies : 12 ...
... , many years after thus portrayed : " Wharton , the scorn and wonder of our days , Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise Women and fools must like him or he dies : 12 ...
עמוד 14
... praise ; His life , to forfeit it a thousand ways : * * * * He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still ! flagitious , yet not great . " * it was In regard to his connection with this man , and the patronage thus ...
... praise ; His life , to forfeit it a thousand ways : * * * * He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still ! flagitious , yet not great . " * it was In regard to his connection with this man , and the patronage thus ...
עמוד 16
... praise , inspires , Matures , refines , embellishes , exalts Earth's happiness ? From that , the delicate , The grand , the marvellous of civil life , " & c . It is represented to have been to him a great luxury to paint the miseries of ...
... praise , inspires , Matures , refines , embellishes , exalts Earth's happiness ? From that , the delicate , The grand , the marvellous of civil life , " & c . It is represented to have been to him a great luxury to paint the miseries of ...
עמוד 17
... praise to the queen for the victories achieved under her reign and direction , but proceeds to say , that the author is more pleased to see her rise from this lower world , soaring above the clouds , passing the first and second heavens ...
... praise to the queen for the victories achieved under her reign and direction , but proceeds to say , that the author is more pleased to see her rise from this lower world , soaring above the clouds , passing the first and second heavens ...
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.