The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 16Clarke Company, limited, 1890 - Anthologies |
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... less than I. Shipwrecked , in vain to land I make ; While Love and Fate still drive me back : Forced to dote on thee thy own way , I chide thee first , and then obey . Wretched when from thee , vexed when nigh , I with thee , or without ...
... less than I. Shipwrecked , in vain to land I make ; While Love and Fate still drive me back : Forced to dote on thee thy own way , I chide thee first , and then obey . Wretched when from thee , vexed when nigh , I with thee , or without ...
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... less content : They were not slaves to tyranny , Nor ruled by wild democracy ; But kings , that could not wrong , because Their power was circumscribed by laws . These insects lived like men , and all Our actions they performed in small ...
... less content : They were not slaves to tyranny , Nor ruled by wild democracy ; But kings , that could not wrong , because Their power was circumscribed by laws . These insects lived like men , and all Our actions they performed in small ...
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... had it not . Those that were in the wrong stood mute , And dropt the patched vexatious suit ; On which , since nothing less can thrive Than lawyers in an honest hive , All , except 22 THE GRUMBLING HIVE , OR KNAVES TURNED HONEST .
... had it not . Those that were in the wrong stood mute , And dropt the patched vexatious suit ; On which , since nothing less can thrive Than lawyers in an honest hive , All , except 22 THE GRUMBLING HIVE , OR KNAVES TURNED HONEST .
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... less refined . But pray , madam , how came the poets and philosophers , that labored so much in hunting after pleasure , to place it at last in a country life ? Mrs. Sullen - Because they wanted money , child , to find out the pleasures ...
... less refined . But pray , madam , how came the poets and philosophers , that labored so much in hunting after pleasure , to place it at last in a country life ? Mrs. Sullen - Because they wanted money , child , to find out the pleasures ...
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... less to answer for . We have a common form for all those things : as to foretelling the weather , we never meddle with that , but leave it to the printer , who takes it out of any old almanack , as he thinks fit the rest was my own ...
... less to answer for . We have a common form for all those things : as to foretelling the weather , we never meddle with that , but leave it to the printer , who takes it out of any old almanack , as he thinks fit the rest was my own ...
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Page 208 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shaft glorify me.
Page 85 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 291 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 45 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 356 - Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave; Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave: Is he a Churchman?
Page 361 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 168 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 85 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 61 - ... of the quorum. The whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts and in their mourning suits; the men in frieze, and the women in riding-hoods. Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the Hall-house, and the whole estate. When my old master saw him, a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate. which was falling to him, desiring him only to make...
Page 361 - Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun ; Go, soar with Plato to th...