And why ? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal, but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close... Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality - עמוד 12מאת Edward Young - 1839 - 280 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1849 - 1188 דפים
...dread : But their hearts, wounded like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft no truce is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains,...keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death." This common delusion must be prevented by a constant view of death as near at hand, ourselves liable,... | |
| John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 דפים
...to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. 180 6. As from the wing no scar the sky retains; The parted...keel; '. So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Ev*n with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in the grave-. '- YOXINO.... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 דפים
...wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no...keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death ! Even with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. THE LAST... | |
| John Webster Morris - 1833 - 548 דפים
...to leave the grave, and while looking into it the tears rolled down his manly face upon the coffin. 'The tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their graves.' SECTION IX. AD 1802, 1803. TOWARDS the close of the preseding year Mr. Hall began to suffer... | |
| Edward Young - 1834 - 370 דפים
...wounded hearts the sudden dread ; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no...keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Ev'n with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. Can I forget... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 דפים
...hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no...keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Even with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. ANECDOTE... | |
| Walter Colton - 1835 - 332 דפים
...extinguishing night of the grave. Yet how soon is such a scene forgotten! "As from the wing, the sky no scar retains. The parted wave, no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts, the thought of death." There is something peculiarly melancholy and impressive in a burial at sea;—there is here no coffin... | |
| Walter Colton - 1835 - 344 דפים
...extinguishing night of the grave. Yet how soon is such a scene forgotten ! " As from the wing, the sky no scar retains, The parted wave, no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts, the thought of death." There is something peculiarly melaqcholy and impressive in a burial at sea; — there is here no coffin... | |
| 1836 - 424 דפים
...877 • ill rt:* I' •. 378 But their heartw wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no...•.;.-• .. So dies in human hearts the thought of death : . ' ,• Even when the 'tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.... | |
| 1836 - 440 דפים
...image now stretched before her. But tears, though shed in earnest, are, alas ! often shed in vain. " As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death," when that thought is not embalmed by affection. The funeral obsequies were celebrated with a pomp of... | |
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