Essays on Various Subjects: in which Some Characters of the Present Age are Introduced: By M. de la Garde, ... To which is Added Some Poetical Pieces, by Mrs. GuppyR. Edwards; and sold by T. Hurst, London, 1800 - 103 pages |
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... . VI . - Affectation 45 VII . Conversation 53- VIII . · Grief 62 . IX . - Adversity 68 X. Slander 74 XI . Old Age 78- XII . - Death 83 . XIII . · Moral Rectitude 88 A Dream 95 Page Line ERRAT A. 5 for the little attention , CONTENTS.
... . VI . - Affectation 45 VII . Conversation 53- VIII . · Grief 62 . IX . - Adversity 68 X. Slander 74 XI . Old Age 78- XII . - Death 83 . XIII . · Moral Rectitude 88 A Dream 95 Page Line ERRAT A. 5 for the little attention , CONTENTS.
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... with gloom or fullen care , We'll lend to gaiety , and give to pray'r ; Our youth , like us , fhall hail the happy day , When age refpected pointed out the way . MRS . GUPPY . ESSAY ESSAY XII . ON DEATH . FROM the moment of 82.
... with gloom or fullen care , We'll lend to gaiety , and give to pray'r ; Our youth , like us , fhall hail the happy day , When age refpected pointed out the way . MRS . GUPPY . ESSAY ESSAY XII . ON DEATH . FROM the moment of 82.
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... DEATH . FROM the moment of our birth we may be confidered as living under the fentence of death ; for whoever is born muft die . Yet , to think of it continu- ally , so as to prevent us from enjoying the innocent comforts of life ...
... DEATH . FROM the moment of our birth we may be confidered as living under the fentence of death ; for whoever is born muft die . Yet , to think of it continu- ally , so as to prevent us from enjoying the innocent comforts of life ...
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... death is not more fami- When we hear of any one liar to us . of our acquaintance having left the world , we are as much furprised at it , as if it were an event quite uncommon , without confidering that we ourselves fhall foon alfo take ...
... death is not more fami- When we hear of any one liar to us . of our acquaintance having left the world , we are as much furprised at it , as if it were an event quite uncommon , without confidering that we ourselves fhall foon alfo take ...
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... Death owes the greatest of its horrors to our imagination , and the apparatus which commonly attends it . To be teased , to the very last moment , with useless remedies , and the whispering nonsense of chattering nurses , would be ...
... Death owes the greatest of its horrors to our imagination , and the apparatus which commonly attends it . To be teased , to the very last moment , with useless remedies , and the whispering nonsense of chattering nurses , would be ...
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ACASTUS accompliſhments adverfity affectation appear attended beftow bleffed bleft blifs bliſs boaft boundleſs Clarinda cloſe comfort confidered conftant conſciouſneſs converfation defirable degrade themſelves diſappointed diſeaſe earth ESSAY ESSAY eſteem exult fafely faid fatisfaction fays fcene feel feem feldom felves fenfible fentiments fhall fhare fhew fhould firſt flander flave fmiles fome fometimes foon fortune foul fpirit friends friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fuperior furprifing goodneſs greateſt grief GUPPY happineſs happy heart himſelf human indulge inftruction intereft itſelf juft juftice kindneſs laft leaft lefs liften lofs loft mind moft mortal moſt muft muſt never old age ORONTES ourſelves paffions perfons pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed prefent pride profpect purpoſes raiſe refpect ſcene ſee ſenſe ſhall ſmiling ſpent ſtate ſtill thee thefe THEODOSIUS theſe bodies thofe thoſe we love thou thouſand tion trifles underſtanding unleſs uſeful vanity virtue whilft whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh youth
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Page 21 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins Heaven and Earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, • All end in love of God, and love of man.
Page 22 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 94 - For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns.
Page 20 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose, attended with no pain ; Without satiety...
Page 22 - In one close system of Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole.
Page 20 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 29 - Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Page 21 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Page 13 - THE man refolv'd and fteady to his truft, Inflexible to ill, and obftinately juft, May the rude rabble's infolence defpife, Their fenfelefs clamours and tumultuous cries ; The tyrant's fiercenefs he beguiles, And the ftern brow, and the harfli voice defies, And with fuperior greatnefs fmiles.
Page 20 - And but more relish'd as the more distress'd ; The broadest mirth unfeeling Folly wears Less pleasing far than Virtue's very tears...