The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell].

  • Pitcairn, Archibald, 1652-1713
Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In total Death fuppol’e the Mortal lie, No new Hereafter, nor a future Sky: Yet bear thy Lot content, yet ceafe to grieve; Why, e’re Death comes, doft thou forbear to live? The littleTime thou haft ’twixt Inftant now And Death’s Approach, is all the Gods allow; And of this Little haft thou ought to fpare To fad Reflection, and corroding Care? The Moments paft, if thou art wife, retrieve, With pleafant Mem’ry of the Bliis they gave. The prefent Hours in prefent Mirth employ, And bribe the future with the Hopes of Joy. The Future, few or more, howe’er they be,~\ Were deftin’d erft, nor can by Fate’s Decree > Be now cut off, betwixt the Grave and Thee.-^ •» * To \