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 | English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before roe ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 504 pages
...thought." — Thus Cato : Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? ******* Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded .prospect lies before me, shadows, clouds, and darkness rest... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me, But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...out an Hereaftef, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou -pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ( The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before mfi ; But shadows, clouds and darkness... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - English drama - 1815 - 496 pages
...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me: But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...an hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness,... | |
 | John Nicholls - Great Britain - 1820 - 428 pages
...to assume a new form. The human mind trembles at the contemplation of these probable events : — " Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before us, But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest... | |
 | John Nicholls - Great Britain - 1822 - 442 pages
...assume a new form. 239 The human mind trembles at the contemplation of these probable events : — " Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before us, But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pages
...pursuits in which she has been detained, plunges into the future; and either anxiously inquires, • Through what variety of untried being, through what new scenes and changes must I pass?' — or expatiates on the bright and blissful prospects which revelation offers to the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. ™ Eternity ! thou .pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness... | |
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