Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death: In which the Question is Considered, Whether it is Easier to Live Virtuously in Society, Or in Solitude, Volume 1Vernor and Hood, 1800 - Solitude |
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... Nature charm , To steal themselves from the degenerate Crowd , And soar above this little scene of things : To tread low thoughted Vice beneath their feet ; To sooth the Throbbing Passions into peace ; And wooe Lone Quiet in her silent ...
... Nature charm , To steal themselves from the degenerate Crowd , And soar above this little scene of things : To tread low thoughted Vice beneath their feet ; To sooth the Throbbing Passions into peace ; And wooe Lone Quiet in her silent ...
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... nature for the enjoyments of fociety , and im- pelled continually towards it by a mul- titude of powerful and invincible pro- penfities , fhould feek refuge in forefts , and inhabit the dreary cave or lonely cell he is a friend to the ...
... nature for the enjoyments of fociety , and im- pelled continually towards it by a mul- titude of powerful and invincible pro- penfities , fhould feek refuge in forefts , and inhabit the dreary cave or lonely cell he is a friend to the ...
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... nature of human fociety , and its correfpondent duties , which he here undertakes to examine . The impor tant characters of Father , Husband , Son , and Citizen , impofe on Man a variety of obligations , which are always dear to ...
... nature of human fociety , and its correfpondent duties , which he here undertakes to examine . The impor tant characters of Father , Husband , Son , and Citizen , impofe on Man a variety of obligations , which are always dear to ...
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... Nature has rendered productive of fo many pleafures , or hope to taste that true fe- licity which refults from an indepen dent mind and a contented heart : á felicity feldom fought after , only be- cause it is fo little known , but ...
... Nature has rendered productive of fo many pleafures , or hope to taste that true fe- licity which refults from an indepen dent mind and a contented heart : á felicity feldom fought after , only be- cause it is fo little known , but ...
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... natural phi- lofophy , and particularly mathematics , engaged a confiderable portion of his attention , and , by the affiftance of M. Segner , rewarded his toils with a large fund of valuable information . Politics , alfo , both as they ...
... natural phi- lofophy , and particularly mathematics , engaged a confiderable portion of his attention , and , by the affiftance of M. Segner , rewarded his toils with a large fund of valuable information . Politics , alfo , both as they ...
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Page 165 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 166 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body; peace of mind; Quiet by day ; Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 278 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 278 - Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 23 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 38 - Here too dwells simple truth ; plain innocence ; Unsullied beauty ; sound unbroken youth, Patient of labour, with a little pleas'd ; Health, ever blooming ; unambitious toil ; Calm contemplation, and poetic ease.
Page 273 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar; Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.
Page 303 - And comfort those who come to bring relief: We gaze, and as we gaze, wealth, fame, decay, And all the world's vain glories fade away.
Page 309 - He is the happy man, whose life e'en now Shows somewhat of that happier life to come ; Who, doom'd to an obscure but tranquil state, Is pleased with it, and, were he free to choose, Would make his fate his choice; whom peace, the fruit Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith, Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home.
Page 276 - A man who can be satisfied with such a supper has no need of gold ; and I think it more glorious to conquer the owners of it than to have it myself.