The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts: In Three Volumes, Volume 2F. and C. Rivington ; Otridge and Son ; J. Nichols ; J. Sewell ; Longman and Rees ; Cadell and Davies ; G. and J. Robinson ; Vernor and Hood ; J. Walker ; J. Scatcherd ; Ogilvy and Son ; T. Hurst ; J. Mawman ; J. Nunn ; J. Cuthell ; W.J. and J. Richardson ; and J. Bookham, 1802 |
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... sigh does shake me ; Sighs there , are tempests here . I've heard , bad men would be unblest in heav'n : What is my guilt , that makes me so with you ? Have I not languish'd prostrate at thy feet ? Have I not liv'd whole days upon ...
... sigh does shake me ; Sighs there , are tempests here . I've heard , bad men would be unblest in heav'n : What is my guilt , that makes me so with you ? Have I not languish'd prostrate at thy feet ? Have I not liv'd whole days upon ...
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... sigh unscorn'd ; but I complain not ; ' Twas but a world ; and you are - Leonora . LEONORA . That passion which you boast of , is your guilt ; A treason to your friend . You think mean of me , To plead your crimes as motives of my love ...
... sigh unscorn'd ; but I complain not ; ' Twas but a world ; and you are - Leonora . LEONORA . That passion which you boast of , is your guilt ; A treason to your friend . You think mean of me , To plead your crimes as motives of my love ...
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... sigh'd ; nay wept ; but could not help it ; And sure it is no crime to be in pain ! But grant my crime was great , I'm greatly curs'd . What would you more ? Am I not most undone ? This usage is like stamping on the murder'd , When life ...
... sigh'd ; nay wept ; but could not help it ; And sure it is no crime to be in pain ! But grant my crime was great , I'm greatly curs'd . What would you more ? Am I not most undone ? This usage is like stamping on the murder'd , When life ...
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... sighs and groans , and a whole year of dying : But O the curse of curses ! O my friend ! LEONORA . Alas ! ALONZO . What says my love ? -Speak , Leonora . LEONORA . Was it for you , my lord , to be so quick , In finding out objections to ...
... sighs and groans , and a whole year of dying : But O the curse of curses ! O my friend ! LEONORA . Alas ! ALONZO . What says my love ? -Speak , Leonora . LEONORA . Was it for you , my lord , to be so quick , In finding out objections to ...
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... sigh for Leonora . When your friend's gone , you'll wed ; why then the cause , Which gives you Leonora now , will cease . Carlos has lost her ; should you lose her too , Why then you heap new torments on your friend , By that respect ...
... sigh for Leonora . When your friend's gone , you'll wed ; why then the cause , Which gives you Leonora now , will cease . Carlos has lost her ; should you lose her too , Why then you heap new torments on your friend , By that respect ...
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ALONZO Alvarez ambition angels ANTIGONUS art thou beneath bleeds blest bliss blood blood divine bosom brother call'd crime CURTIUS dæmons dare dark dead death DEMETRIUS deny'd despair divine Don Carlos dost dreadful dust DYMAS earth empire ERIXENE eternal Ev'n ev'ry Exit fair fate father fear flame fond fool gaze give glory gods good-natur'd grave grief groan guilt happiness hast hear heart heav'n hope hour human immortal ISABELLA KING LEONORA life's lord LORENZO mortal NARCISSA nature nature's ne'er night numbers o'er pain pangs passion peace PERICLES PERSEUS Philip POSTHUMIUS pow'r praise pride rage reason rise Rome scene shew sigh skies smile song soul speak stab sting strike tears thee theme thine thou thought Thrace Thracian thro throne tomb tremble triumph Twas vengeance virtue weep wing wisdom wise wounds wretched ZANGA
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Page 214 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 232 - 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. Their answers form what men Experience call ; If Wisdom's friend, her best ; -if not, worst foe.
Page 203 - How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 215 - Tis not in folly not to scorn a fool, And scarce in human wisdom to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed...
Page 206 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Page 202 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Page 354 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away: Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires. With this minute distinction, emblems just, Nature revolves, but man advances ; both Eternal ; that a circle, this a line. That gravitates, this soars. Th' aspiring soul, Ardent, and tremulous,...
Page 255 - Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of love ; For us they languish, and for us they die...
Page 351 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich. Poor is the man in debt ; the man of gold, In debt to fortune, trembles at her power.
Page 205 - Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us, embryos of existence, free.