The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, المجلد 35 |
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... tree before them was not a man , but a bottle . This vice has very fatal effects on the mind , the bo- dy , and fortune , of the person who is devoted to it . In regard to the mind , it first of all discovers every flaw in it . The ...
... tree before them was not a man , but a bottle . This vice has very fatal effects on the mind , the bo- dy , and fortune , of the person who is devoted to it . In regard to the mind , it first of all discovers every flaw in it . The ...
الصفحة 52
... tree . In this new shape he winged his way in safety to the palace ; where , perching on a tree which stood near his queen's apartment , he filled the whole place with so many melodious and melan- choly notes as drew her to the window ...
... tree . In this new shape he winged his way in safety to the palace ; where , perching on a tree which stood near his queen's apartment , he filled the whole place with so many melodious and melan- choly notes as drew her to the window ...
الصفحة 70
... trees , And with wild thyme and sav'ry plant the plain , ' Till his hard horny fingers ache with pain ; And deck with fruitful trees the fields around , And with refreshing waters drench the ground . DRYDEN . EVERY station of life has ...
... trees , And with wild thyme and sav'ry plant the plain , ' Till his hard horny fingers ache with pain ; And deck with fruitful trees the fields around , And with refreshing waters drench the ground . DRYDEN . EVERY station of life has ...
الصفحة 72
... trees does by no means bear a proportion to the destruction of them , insomuch that in a few ages the nation may be at a loss to supply itself with timber sufficieut for the fleets of England . I know when a man talks of posterity in ...
... trees does by no means bear a proportion to the destruction of them , insomuch that in a few ages the nation may be at a loss to supply itself with timber sufficieut for the fleets of England . I know when a man talks of posterity in ...
الصفحة 77
... trees , that gradually shot up into groves , woods , and forests , intermixed with walks , and lawns , and gardens ; insomuch that the whole region , from a naked and desolate prospect , began now to look like a second Paradise . The ...
... trees , that gradually shot up into groves , woods , and forests , intermixed with walks , and lawns , and gardens ; insomuch that the whole region , from a naked and desolate prospect , began now to look like a second Paradise . The ...
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acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
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الصفحة 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
الصفحة 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
الصفحة 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
الصفحة 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
الصفحة 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
الصفحة 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
الصفحة 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...