Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse And Prose
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their funeral piles afcend, And in the fame fad flames their forrows end ; In hopes with them beneath the lhades to rove, And there renew their interrupted love.
In climes where Boreas breathes eternal cold, See num'rous nations, warlike, fierce, and bold, To battle all unanimoufly run, Nor fire, nor fword, nor inftant death they fhun : Whence this difdain of life in ev'ry breaft, "1 But from a notion on their minds impreft, > That all who for their country die, are bleft. J Add too to thefe th...e once prevailing dreams, Of fweet Elyfian groves, and Stygian ftreams : All fliew with what confent mankind agree In the firm hope of Immortality. Grant thefe th' inventions of the crafty prieft, Yet fuch inventions never cou'd fubfift, Unlefs fome glimm'rings of a future ftate, Were with the mind ccasval, and innate : F"or ev'ry fiction, which can long perfuade, In truth muft have its firft foundations laid.
3 Becaufe 154 ON THE IMMORTALITY Becaufe we are unable to conceive, How unembody'd fouls can act, and live, The vulgar give them forms, and limbs, and faces, And habitations in peculiar places ; Hence reas'ners more refin'd, but not more wife, Struck with the glare of fuch abfurdit'ues, Their whole exiftence fabulous fufpect, And truth and falfehood in a lump reject, Too indolent to learn what may be known, Or elfe too proud that ignorance to own.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
their funeral piles afcend, And in the fame fad flames their forrows end ; In hopes with them beneath the lhades to rove, And there renew their interrupted love.
In climes where Boreas breathes eternal cold, See num'rous nations, warlike, fierce, and bold, To battle all unanimoufly run, Nor fire, nor fword, nor inftant death they fhun : Whence this difdain of life in ev'ry breaft, "1 But from a notion on their minds impreft, > That all who for their country die, are bleft. J Add too to thefe th...e once prevailing dreams, Of fweet Elyfian groves, and Stygian ftreams : All fliew with what confent mankind agree In the firm hope of Immortality. Grant thefe th' inventions of the crafty prieft, Yet fuch inventions never cou'd fubfift, Unlefs fome glimm'rings of a future ftate, Were with the mind ccasval, and innate : F"or ev'ry fiction, which can long perfuade, In truth muft have its firft foundations laid.
3 Becaufe 154 ON THE IMMORTALITY Becaufe we are unable to conceive, How unembody'd fouls can act, and live, The vulgar give them forms, and limbs, and faces, And habitations in peculiar places ; Hence reas'ners more refin'd, but not more wife, Struck with the glare of fuch abfurdit'ues, Their whole exiftence fabulous fufpect, And truth and falfehood in a lump reject, Too indolent to learn what may be known, Or elfe too proud that ignorance to own.
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