Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3 |
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... most you are to expect from them : for , as the promife is conditional , and that convenient feafon will never arrive , fo the performance of their promise will never be fulfilled . But it is not always levity or laziness ; it is not ...
... most you are to expect from them : for , as the promife is conditional , and that convenient feafon will never arrive , fo the performance of their promise will never be fulfilled . But it is not always levity or laziness ; it is not ...
Page 45
... , not void of reflection , refolve at least to exert his endeavours in preparing for his great change ; while at the fame time , prefent concerns , by by their immediate influence , preferve his lively and most ( 45 )
... , not void of reflection , refolve at least to exert his endeavours in preparing for his great change ; while at the fame time , prefent concerns , by by their immediate influence , preferve his lively and most ( 45 )
Page 46
... most frequent attention . The greatest object , if viewed at a prodigious distance , will not affect our perceptions fo ftrongly as a much fmaller one that is near to us . Thus it is as to Death , and the comparatively little ob- jects ...
... most frequent attention . The greatest object , if viewed at a prodigious distance , will not affect our perceptions fo ftrongly as a much fmaller one that is near to us . Thus it is as to Death , and the comparatively little ob- jects ...
Page 48
... most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that Death , a neceffary end , Will come when it will come . " Of this paffage , the two firft lines are exceed- ingly animated ; but the reft of it is , in my opi- nion , an irrational ...
... most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that Death , a neceffary end , Will come when it will come . " Of this paffage , the two firft lines are exceed- ingly animated ; but the reft of it is , in my opi- nion , an irrational ...
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... most loathed worldly life That age , ache , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradise To what we fear of Death . " Thus an Infidel , who has a lively imagination , may , upon his own principles , be frightened when he ...
... most loathed worldly life That age , ache , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradise To what we fear of Death . " Thus an Infidel , who has a lively imagination , may , upon his own principles , be frightened when he ...
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Page 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st 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 232 - Let me be quickly rich,' said Ortogrul ; ' let the golden stream be quick and violent.' ' Look round thee,' said his father,
Page 8 - 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 8 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 24 - is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually changing our scenes ; we first leave childhood behind us, then youth, then the years of ripened manhood, then the better and more pleasing part of old age.
Page 230 - The dishes of Luxury cover his table, the voice of Harmony lulls him in his bowers; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges.
Page 8 - larum bell ? 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...
Page 175 - To purchase heaven has gold the power ? Can gold remove the mortal hour ? In life can love be bought with gold ? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold ? No— all that's worth a wish — a thought, Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought.