Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 من الصفحات |
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... persons , if I point out to them certain methods for the filling up their empty spaces of life . The methods I shall propose to them are as follow : - The first is the exercise of virtue , in the ΙΟ Wisdom , Wit , and Allegory .
... persons , if I point out to them certain methods for the filling up their empty spaces of life . The methods I shall propose to them are as follow : - The first is the exercise of virtue , in the ΙΟ Wisdom , Wit , and Allegory .
الصفحة 11
... person who can busy himself in them with discretion . There is another kind of virtue that may find employment for those retired hours in which we are altogether left to ourselves , and destitute of company and conversation ; I mean ...
... person who can busy himself in them with discretion . There is another kind of virtue that may find employment for those retired hours in which we are altogether left to ourselves , and destitute of company and conversation ; I mean ...
الصفحة 12
... persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and divid- ing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged ...
... persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and divid- ing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged ...
الصفحة 13
... person , one would endeavour after a more general conversation with such as are able to entertain and improve those with whom they converse , which are qualifications that seldom go asunder . There are many other useful employments of ...
... person , one would endeavour after a more general conversation with such as are able to entertain and improve those with whom they converse , which are qualifications that seldom go asunder . There are many other useful employments of ...
الصفحة 20
... person or other that is below him in point of understanding , and triumphs in the superiority of his genius whilst he has such objects of derision before his eyes . Mr Dennis has very well expressed this in a couple of humorous lines ...
... person or other that is below him in point of understanding , and triumphs in the superiority of his genius whilst he has such objects of derision before his eyes . Mr Dennis has very well expressed this in a couple of humorous lines ...
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acrostic actions admiration advantage Æneid agreeable ALLEGORY ambition animal appear atheist Avarice beautiful bewitching black tower body burlesque cast character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creatures delight desire discourse discover Divine drachmas endeavour entertaining evil fable fame fancy filled folly friends genius give greater hand happy heart heaven HESIOD honour human nature ideas Iliad imagination infinitely Jupiter kind laugh laughter live look mankind manner mentioned mind Mirth never notion objects observed occasion ourselves Ovid pain particular passions perfection perpetual person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasing pleasure Plutus poet poverty present proper raise reader reason receive reflect religion reputation ridicule says secret sense shew short sider sight Sir Francis Bacon Sir Roger l'Estrange Socrates soul species temper things thou thought tion truth turn vanity vice Virgil virtue virtuous whole wisdom words writing Xenophon
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الصفحة 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
الصفحة 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
الصفحة 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
الصفحة 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
الصفحة 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
الصفحة 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
الصفحة 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
الصفحة 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
الصفحة 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
الصفحة 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.