 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 ... - Page 4by Edward Young - 1815 - 312 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 lehte
...melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades I All, all on earth, is Shadow, all beyond Is Substance...folly's creed : How solid all, where change shall be no more ! Yet man, fool man! here buries all his thoughts; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh. Prisoner... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 lehte
...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 ! Yet man, fool man ! here buries all his thought* ; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh.... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 562 lehte
...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? This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule ; Life's theatre... | |
 | William Jay - 1864 - 703 lehte
...revolutions of time. And look forward not only to a pure, but a permanent state of blessedness — '* All, all on earth is shadow — all beyond Is substance....folly's creed. How solid all where change shall be no more !" NOVEMBER 22. — " Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and... | |
 | River - 1864 - 202 lehte
...the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up." Well, therefore, says Young— "All, all on earth is shadow; all beyond Is substance....reverse is folly's creed. How solid all, where change is known no more ! " II. He tells us that it is an inheritance " undeftled." Sin is the source of mortality.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 lehte
...Calderon's when he says, in another part of his midmost Night Thoughts, on the Night side of human Nature, All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed : How solid all, when change shall be no more ! || We are told that Algazzali, the Light of Islam and Pillar of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 lehte
...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 ! Yet man, foot man! here buries all his thought*, Inters celestial hopes without one sigh. Prisoner... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1865 - 116 lehte
...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 30 * What if, and what though are elliptical phrases. Some word or words can be supplied to complete... | |
 | 1866 - 426 lehte
...populous, how vital, is the gravel 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! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 lehte
...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 ! This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule ; Life's theatre... | |
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