This is the desert, this the solitude : How populous, how vital, is the grave ! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom : The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance... The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality ... - Página 4por Edward Young - 1815 - 312 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 páginas
...peace with man, A peace which with his Saviour's love began. 9 General Epitaphs of three Liaes each. All, all on earth is shadow ? all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed ; How ¿olid all where change shall be no more ! 11. Life is at best but like a winter's day, As full of... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1825 - 766 páginas
...can expire! Who builds on less than an immortal base, Fond as he seems, condemns his joys to death. All, all on earth is shadow ; all beyond Is substance...folly's creed. How solid all, where change shall be no more ! The proper test to distinguish between true and false joys. " Can joy like thine secure itself... | |
| Charles Feist - 1825 - 132 páginas
...populous ! how vital Is the grave ! This is Creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades : All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is sulalance. YOINQ. On ! yes, there's a pang which the fond heart feels When the damp of death o'er a... | |
| Edward Young - 1826 - 318 páginas
...populous, how vital is the grave ! This is Creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond 120 Is substance ; the reverse is Folly's creed. How solid all, where change shall be no more ! This... | |
| 1827 - 290 páginas
...How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who center'd in our make such strange extremes ! p. 15. All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance;...folly's creed; How solid all, where change shall be no more ! p. 17And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, And smother... | |
| William Jay - 1829 - 592 páginas
...glorious body— and be as immortal as the soul. Every thing here is variable, fading, perishing — " All, all on earth, is shadow ; all beyond, " Is substance...creed — " How solid all, where change shall be no more !" — Where we shall have, not only endless existence, but endless existence beatified. Where,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 páginas
...dismiss your fear. Л/. We cannot think men beyond the sea will part with their money for nothing. Locke. All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance...folly's creed ; How solid all, where change shall he no more. Young. It is that settled, ceaseless gloom, The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore ; That will... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...populous, how vital is the grave ! This is Creation's melancholy vault. The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades...Folly's creed. How solid all, where change shall be no more ! DELAY IN THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION. Br Nature's law, what may be may be now ; There's no prerogative... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...populous, how vital, is the grave ! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades!...substance; the reverse is folly's creed: How solid nil, where change shall be no more ! Thin is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...the sad cypress gloom ; ^ The laud of apparitions, empty ehnclea 1 All, all on earth, is shadow, till d in iron harvests of the field 1 Where grows I — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, W more t This is the bud of being,' the dim dawn, The twilight of our diiy, the vestibule ; Life's theatre... | |
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