This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ... miseries, we bear, How insupportable our torments are. Music no rtiore delights our deaf'ning ears, Restores our joys, or dissipates our fears, But all is melancholy, all is sad, 55 In robes of deepest mourning clad; For ev'ry faculty and ev'ry sense Partakes the woe of this dire exigence. IV. Then we are sensible, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ... miseries, we bear, How insupportable our torments are. Music no rtiore delights our deaf'ning ears, Restores our joys, or dissipates our fears, But all is melancholy, all is sad, 55 In robes of deepest mourning clad; For ev'ry faculty and ev'ry sense Partakes the woe of this dire exigence. IV. Then we are sensible, too late, ' Tis no advantage to be rich or great; io For all the fulsome pride and pageantry of state No consolation brings;... Riches and honours then are useless things, Tasteless or bitter all, . '.r.;... r... And, like the book which the Apostle ate, 65 To the ill-judging palate sweeti'....;.. But turn at last to nauseousnesS and gall. Nothing will then our drooping spirits cheer But the remembrance of good actions past j Virtue's a joy that will'forever last; .... 7 And makes pale Death less terrible appear, .. Takes out his baneful sting, and palliates our fear. In the dark antichamber of the grave..... t What would we give (ev'n all we have, All that our care and industry hath gain'dj 75 All that our policy, our fraud, our art, obtain'd) Could we recall those fatal hours again Which we consum'd in senseless vanities, Ambitious follies, or luxurious ease; For then they urge our terrors and increase our pain. V. Our friends and relatives stand weeping by, 81 Dissolv'd in tears, to see us die, And plunge into the deep abyss of wide eternity. In vain they mourn, in vain they grieve, Their sorrows cannot ours relieve 1 8 5 They pity our deplorable estate; But what, alas! can pity do To soften the decrees of Fate? Besides, the sentence is irrevocable too. All their endeavours to preserve our breath, 99 Tho' they do unsuccessful prove, Shew us how much, how tenderly they love, But cannot cut off the entail of death. Mournful they look, and c...
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