Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 1 |
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... shall we say of the beauties of the works of nature ? If we look upon the earth , we fee it laid out in a thousand beautiful inequal ities , and a pleasing variety of plains , hills , and mountains , generally clothed by Nature in a liv ...
... shall we say of the beauties of the works of nature ? If we look upon the earth , we fee it laid out in a thousand beautiful inequal ities , and a pleasing variety of plains , hills , and mountains , generally clothed by Nature in a liv ...
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... Shall my duft , paffed into a thoufand fhapes and pofitions ; eaten of worms , fhot up into vegetables , tranfmigrated by an endlefs diverfity of changes , blown about by the winds , diffipated by the waters ; fhall thefe fcattered ...
... Shall my duft , paffed into a thoufand fhapes and pofitions ; eaten of worms , fhot up into vegetables , tranfmigrated by an endlefs diverfity of changes , blown about by the winds , diffipated by the waters ; fhall thefe fcattered ...
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... shall soften every reproof ; love fhall throw the gay mantle of its joy over the rugged path , and both shall pass the burning ordeal with unhurt feet ; love fhall diffuse its sweetness and complacency about each word that tends to the ...
... shall soften every reproof ; love fhall throw the gay mantle of its joy over the rugged path , and both shall pass the burning ordeal with unhurt feet ; love fhall diffuse its sweetness and complacency about each word that tends to the ...
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... shall be above all that we have here . called pleasures , we fhall find an additional tranf- port in feeing those whom we have loved on earth , happy with us to all eternity .. Study , Compofition , and Converfe , Equally necessary to ...
... shall be above all that we have here . called pleasures , we fhall find an additional tranf- port in feeing those whom we have loved on earth , happy with us to all eternity .. Study , Compofition , and Converfe , Equally necessary to ...
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... shall forbid to fleep in anger , nor let the fun go down upon their wrath . Shame upon that philofophy , which calls the monster Jealousy a proof of love , or ranks it with its offspring ! Conftancy to one another is the first principal ...
... shall forbid to fleep in anger , nor let the fun go down upon their wrath . Shame upon that philofophy , which calls the monster Jealousy a proof of love , or ranks it with its offspring ! Conftancy to one another is the first principal ...
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Page 236 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 290 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Page 110 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 236 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.
Page 170 - Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; 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 235 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 280 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 208 - Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds, and gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and consequently to recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance, and prejudice, which naturally cleave to them. I have all along...
Page 108 - But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts...
Page 108 - Av'rice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains: He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands...