Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 עמודים |
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עמוד 22
... pride , To Fortune's arrows bared my breast , Till wisdom came , A hoary dame ! And told me pleasure was in rest . Oh may I steal Along the vale Of humble life , secure from foes ! My friend sincere , My judgment clear , And gentle ...
... pride , To Fortune's arrows bared my breast , Till wisdom came , A hoary dame ! And told me pleasure was in rest . Oh may I steal Along the vale Of humble life , secure from foes ! My friend sincere , My judgment clear , And gentle ...
עמוד 23
... pride , Sunk in the ocean of eternity . " Soon after entering upon the duties of his charge in Welwyn , a playful incident occurred , which may be related as an illustration of his extemporaneous wit and humour . Walking in his garden ...
... pride , Sunk in the ocean of eternity . " Soon after entering upon the duties of his charge in Welwyn , a playful incident occurred , which may be related as an illustration of his extemporaneous wit and humour . Walking in his garden ...
עמוד 44
... pride ?? Pride , that impartial passion , reigns through all Attends our glory , nor deserts our fall . " Speaking of some who strive to appear gay and happy , through the impulses of ambition , while their real circumstances in life ...
... pride ?? Pride , that impartial passion , reigns through all Attends our glory , nor deserts our fall . " Speaking of some who strive to appear gay and happy , through the impulses of ambition , while their real circumstances in life ...
עמוד 90
... pride demands it from me . Let thy pride pardon what thy nature needs , The salutary censure of a friend . Thou happy wretch ! by blindness thou art blest ; By dotage dandled to perpetual smiles . 315 Ο Know , smiler ! at thy peril art ...
... pride demands it from me . Let thy pride pardon what thy nature needs , The salutary censure of a friend . Thou happy wretch ! by blindness thou art blest ; By dotage dandled to perpetual smiles . 315 Ο Know , smiler ! at thy peril art ...
עמוד 96
... pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least their own ; their future selves applauds : How excellent that life they ne'er will lead ! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails ; 400 405 That lodged in Fate's , to ...
... pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least their own ; their future selves applauds : How excellent that life they ne'er will lead ! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails ; 400 405 That lodged in Fate's , to ...
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.