Identifier: nightthoughts00younuoft (find matches)
Title: Night thoughts
Year: 1798 (1790s)
Authors: Young, Edward, 1683-1765 Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834 Rothwell, Thomas, 1740-1807 Neagle, James, 1760?-1822 Saunders, Joseph, 1773-1875 Dadley, J Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827
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Publisher: London : Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall ...
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ushd him hack;Supj)orted by a doctor of renown,His point he gaind. Then arttully dismistTiic sage; for Deatli designd to be conccald. 850He iXivc an old vivacious usurerHis meagre aspect^ and his naked bones;In gratitude for plumping up his prey,A j^amperd spendthrift; whose fantastic air,Well-fashiond figure, and cockaded brow, 855 He took in change, and underneath the prideOf costly linen, tuckd his filthy shroud.His crooked bow he straitend to a cane;And hid his deadly shafts in Myras eye. The dreadful masqueradcr, thus equipt, 860 Out-sallies on adventures. Ask you where?Mhcre is he not? For his peculiar haunts,Let this suffice; sure as jiight follows day.Death treads in Pleasures footsteps round the world,A\hen Pleasure treads the paths which Reason shuns.When, against Reason, Riot shuts the door, B66 And Gaiety supplies the place of Sense,Then, foremost at the banquet, and the ball.Death leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die;Nor ever fails the midnight bowl to crown. 870 ^i.
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