Young
Young
death stars empires
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
happiness men ties
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
tyrants cain world
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
strong twilight theatre
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
disease idiot vain
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
brother combat wounds
Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
strong joy guilt
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
nature conscious
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
shadow shade fame
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
abundance poor discontent
Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.
spirit deceased walks
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
envy fame proportion
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.
dirty path life-is
[The] public path of life Is dirty.
book dedication legs
A dedication is a wooden leg.