The Pleasures of Life ...Macmillan and Company, 1890 - Conduct of life |
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... once begin to give way to ourselves , we fall under a most intolerable tyranny . Other temptations are in some respects like that of drink . At first , perhaps , it seems delightful , but there is bitterness at the bottom of the cup ...
... once begin to give way to ourselves , we fall under a most intolerable tyranny . Other temptations are in some respects like that of drink . At first , perhaps , it seems delightful , but there is bitterness at the bottom of the cup ...
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... once asked Pyrrhus what he would do when he had conquered Italy . " I will conquer Sicily . " " Then Africa . " " " " And after Sicily ? " ' And after you have " " conquered the world ? " " I will take my ease and be merry . ' " Then ...
... once asked Pyrrhus what he would do when he had conquered Italy . " I will conquer Sicily . " " Then Africa . " " " " And after Sicily ? " ' And after you have " " conquered the world ? " " I will take my ease and be merry . ' " Then ...
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... once stood beside the grave to look back on the companionship which has been for ever closed , feeling how impotent then are the wild love and the keen sorrow , to give one instant's plea- sure to the pulseless heart , or atone in the ...
... once stood beside the grave to look back on the companionship which has been for ever closed , feeling how impotent then are the wild love and the keen sorrow , to give one instant's plea- sure to the pulseless heart , or atone in the ...
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... once connected the mountains of Scotland and of Norway -to the Arctic Ocean ; and to have only comparatively of late years adopted their present course into the Mediterranean . But , however this may be , the Rhine of Germany and the ...
... once connected the mountains of Scotland and of Norway -to the Arctic Ocean ; and to have only comparatively of late years adopted their present course into the Mediterranean . But , however this may be , the Rhine of Germany and the ...
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... once more by one's own fireside , with one's family , friends , and books . 66 To sit at home , " says Leigh Hunt , " with an old folio ( ? ) book of romantic yet credible voyages and travels to read , an old bearded traveller for its ...
... once more by one's own fireside , with one's family , friends , and books . 66 To sit at home , " says Leigh Hunt , " with an old folio ( ? ) book of romantic yet credible voyages and travels to read , an old bearded traveller for its ...
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Page 102 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 70 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 69 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 43 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 185 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 110 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Page 153 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 182 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 133 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 155 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...