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... mind ; and perhaps , if my readers will turn their thoughts back upon their old friends , they will find it difficult to call a single man to remembrance , who appeared to know that life was short till he was about to lose it . It is ...
... mind ; and perhaps , if my readers will turn their thoughts back upon their old friends , they will find it difficult to call a single man to remembrance , who appeared to know that life was short till he was about to lose it . It is ...
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... mind . TO THE RAMBLER . HOR FRANCIS SIR , THOSE who exalt themselves into the chair of in- struction , without inquiring whether any will submit to their authority , have not sufficiently considered how much of human life passes in ...
... mind . TO THE RAMBLER . HOR FRANCIS SIR , THOSE who exalt themselves into the chair of in- struction , without inquiring whether any will submit to their authority , have not sufficiently considered how much of human life passes in ...
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... mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will relieve them from solitude , without condemning them to ...
... mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will relieve them from solitude , without condemning them to ...
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... mind of my birth , and charged me to do nothing with which I might be reproached when I should come to my aunts ' estate . In all the perplexities or vexations which want of money brought upon us , it was our constant prac- tice to have ...
... mind of my birth , and charged me to do nothing with which I might be reproached when I should come to my aunts ' estate . In all the perplexities or vexations which want of money brought upon us , it was our constant prac- tice to have ...
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... mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoy- ment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . Money has much less ...
... mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoy- ment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . Money has much less ...
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Page 332 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. If there be aught of presage in the mind, This day will be remarkable in my life By some great act, or of my days the last.
Page 120 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 336 - Out, out, hyaena! these are thy wonted arts And arts of every woman false like thee, To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray, Then, as repentant, to submit, beseech, And reconcilement move with...
Page 132 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Page 211 - ... business, and exclude pleasure, and to devote their days and nights to a particular attention. But all common degrees of excellence are attainable at a lower price ; he that should steadily...
Page 56 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 211 - The proverbial oracles of our parsimonious ancestors have informed us that the fatal waste of fortune is by small expenses, by the profusion of sums too little singly to alarm our caution, and which we never suffer ourselves to consider together. Of the same kind is the prodigality of life ; he that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years, must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Page 335 - My vessel trusted to me from above, Gloriously rigg'd; and for a word, a tear, Fool! have divulg'd the secret gift of God To a deceitful woman ? And the chorus talks of adding fuel to flame in a report : He's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame...
Page 106 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night > ->-^^->' ' A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins "-•• Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 337 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?