Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 1 |
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... once to deviate , would fub- ject them to an appellation of all others the most formidable . To be called profligate , extravagant , intemperate , or even wicked , might be tolerated with patience ; but who could bear to live with the ...
... once to deviate , would fub- ject them to an appellation of all others the most formidable . To be called profligate , extravagant , intemperate , or even wicked , might be tolerated with patience ; but who could bear to live with the ...
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... once more to go through the fame revolutions . There is certainly a standard of rectitude in manners , decorum , and tafte ; but it is more difcovered than preferved . The vanity of the great and opulent will ever be affecting new modes ...
... once more to go through the fame revolutions . There is certainly a standard of rectitude in manners , decorum , and tafte ; but it is more difcovered than preferved . The vanity of the great and opulent will ever be affecting new modes ...
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... once more of what fine gentlemen call pleafure . At the end of three years my father died and left me a very large for- tune . I had attended him clofely during his ill- nefs , and having many opportunities to meditate on my past ...
... once more of what fine gentlemen call pleafure . At the end of three years my father died and left me a very large for- tune . I had attended him clofely during his ill- nefs , and having many opportunities to meditate on my past ...
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... once more poffefs the moft deferving of wives , and most lovely of daughters . - I waited not for an answer , but flew to the farm , demanded an entrance , and found my poor Fanny bathed in tears , with my darling child in her arms ...
... once more poffefs the moft deferving of wives , and most lovely of daughters . - I waited not for an answer , but flew to the farm , demanded an entrance , and found my poor Fanny bathed in tears , with my darling child in her arms ...
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... once neat and elegant , was lighted with wax ; around were hung a variety of pictures , whofe fubjects re- flect eternal ' difgrace on the artift that inventéd them , the person that expofed them to view , and thofe who could without a ...
... once neat and elegant , was lighted with wax ; around were hung a variety of pictures , whofe fubjects re- flect eternal ' difgrace on the artift that inventéd them , the person that expofed them to view , and thofe who could without a ...
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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...