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...very early riser. Was ever the bed of sloth more eloquently reprohated than in the following lines ? Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing...moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else, to feverish vanity alive, Wilder'd and tossing thro' distemper'd dreams...

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...Music awakes ; The native voice of undissembled joy ; And thick around the woodland hymns resound. Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing...sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, loosing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of the enlightened soul ;...

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...constitution than two much sleep on this subject the inimitable thomson expresses himself as follows is there aught in sleep can charm the wise To lie...fleeting moments of too short a life Total extinction of the enlightened soul Africans say that before Christians visited them they lived at peace but whenever...

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