Fills it with restless doubts, and wild debates* Concerning what we, living, cannot find. None know what Death is. but the dead; Therefore we all, by nature, dying dread, As a strange, doubtful way, we know not how to tread. The Works of the English Poets: J. Philips, Smith, and Pomfret - Page 316by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
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