 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Judge; "Hat drops into the dark and noifome grave, Like a difabled pitcher of no ule. If death was nothing, and nought after death ; If, when men died,...be, Returning to the barren womb of nothing, Whence firft they fprung, then might the debauchee [druukard t'ntrembling mouthe the hcav'ns ; then might... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...judge ; That drops into the dark and noifomc grave, Like a dilabled pitcher of no ufc. If death was l in the reft : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. [die Whence firftthey iprungjthcn might the dcbau Untrcmbling mouth theheav'ns; then might th drunkard... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...That drops into the dark and noifome grave l, Like a difabled pitcher of no ufe. If death was notbing, and nought after death; If, when men died, at once they ceas'd to <v, Returning from the barren womb of nothing Whence firfl they fprung ; then might the debauchee Untrembling... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...Like a difabled pitcher of no ufe. If death was nothing, and nought after death,— If when men dy'd, at once they ceas'd to be, Returning to the barren womb of nothing Whence firfl. they fprung,—then might the debauchee Untrembling mouth the heav'ns: then might the drunkard... | |
 | 1796 - 446 pages
...SECT. L. " OF ASPHYXIA FROM HANGING. IF death was nothing, and ncugh! after death ; if when men dy'd, at once they ceas'd to be, returning to the barren womb of nothing, whence firft they fprung — Then might the wretch that's weaiy of the world, and tir'd of life, »t once... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...judge ; Tbiil drop» into the dark and noiibmc g'.avc, Like a dilabled pitcher of no ufe. If death was nothing, and nought after death ^. If, when men died, at once they ccas'd to be, Returning to the barren womb of nothing, [chee Whence hrft they fprung ; then might the... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...Like a disabled pitcher of no use. If death was nothing, and nought after death; If when men dy'd, at once they ceas'd to be, Returning to the barren womb of nothing, Whence first theysprang ; thenmight the debauchee XJntrembling mouthe the heavens ; then might the drunkard Reel... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...Like a disabled pitcher of no use. If death were nothing, and nought after death ; If when men dy'd, at once they ceas'd to be, Returning to the barren...sprung ; then might the debauchee Untrembling mouth the heav'ns : — then might the drunkard Reel over his full bowl, and, when 'tis drain'd, Fill up another... | |
 | Frances Brooke - 1802 - 322 pages
...eafily imagined. CHAP. XXX. " If deuth wai nothing, and nought after death—. " If when men dy'd, at once they ceas'd to be, " Returning to the barren womb of nothing, " Whence firft they fprung-— then might the debauchee " Unttembling mouth the litjvcus 1" BLAIR. LY !" exclaimed... | |
 | James Lackington, Allan Macleod - Boarding schools - 1804 - 162 pages
...horrific beauties of his ascent, he has made to skirt the regions of an 'HEREAFTER.' "If death was nothing, and nought after death; If, when men died,...Returning to the barren womb of nothing Whence first they sprang; then might the debauchee Untrembling mouth the heavens; then might the drunkard Reel over his... | |
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Reel over his full bowl, and when 'tis drain'd Fill up another to the brim, and laugh At the poor bugbear Death... 
