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... DEATH NATURE calls us to meditate of death by those things which are the instruments of acting it ; and God , by all the variety of His providence , makes us see death everywhere , in all variety of circumstances , and dressed up for ...
... DEATH NATURE calls us to meditate of death by those things which are the instruments of acting it ; and God , by all the variety of His providence , makes us see death everywhere , in all variety of circumstances , and dressed up for ...
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... death of every person , and it is visible to us who are alive . Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth , and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood ; from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five - and - twenty ...
... death of every person , and it is visible to us who are alive . Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth , and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood ; from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five - and - twenty ...
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... Death -the source from which an Epitaph proceeds ; of death and of life . To be born and to die are the two points in which all men feel themselves to be in absolute coincidence . This general language may be uttered so strikingly as to ...
... Death -the source from which an Epitaph proceeds ; of death and of life . To be born and to die are the two points in which all men feel themselves to be in absolute coincidence . This general language may be uttered so strikingly as to ...
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acquainted admiration appeared beauty Ben Jonson better body called character colour Country creature dark death delight discommending Discourse dream Dry Rot E. V. Lucas eyes face fancy father feel Fellow fortune FREEPORT Friedrich Schlegel Friend Sir ROGER Gentleman give half hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Honour human Humour imagination James Miller Jeems kind lady laugh light living look Lord Macbeth Maid manner Master Metaphysics mind morning nature never night object observed occasion once passed passion person play pleased pleasure poor Pyrrhonism Pyrrhus remember ROGER DE COVERLEY ROGER hearing round Samuel Johnson seemed seen sense Servants side Sir Richard Baker soul speak spirit talk tell thee things thou thought tion told town truth turned Uranius whole woman wonder word young