The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, المجلد 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... . To look on our bodies as enemies to our peace , would be ingratitude to the wise and good Au- thor of them : to cherish them as friends or in- } dulge them as favourites , would be destructive of B 2 NO . 48 . THE GLEANER .
... . To look on our bodies as enemies to our peace , would be ingratitude to the wise and good Au- thor of them : to cherish them as friends or in- } dulge them as favourites , would be destructive of B 2 NO . 48 . THE GLEANER .
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... friends ( for our own is too interested to deserve the name ) , the virtues we observe in others , the composure of the state , the fertility of the earth , and the operations of nature . But it will not be ever in our power to follow ...
... friends ( for our own is too interested to deserve the name ) , the virtues we observe in others , the composure of the state , the fertility of the earth , and the operations of nature . But it will not be ever in our power to follow ...
الصفحة 13
... friends are equally neglected ; your farms and your manors have almost all followed you to London already , and we must take the same journey . Indeed , while your father was contented to wear a plain drugget , this was needless ; but ...
... friends are equally neglected ; your farms and your manors have almost all followed you to London already , and we must take the same journey . Indeed , while your father was contented to wear a plain drugget , this was needless ; but ...
الصفحة 24
... friend called Slander , to insinu- ate to Jupiter an unlikely story of a blind Grecian ( in reality a gallant of her own ) who , she told him , had been intimate with all the Muses . Many other complaints of this kind being daily made ...
... friend called Slander , to insinu- ate to Jupiter an unlikely story of a blind Grecian ( in reality a gallant of her own ) who , she told him , had been intimate with all the Muses . Many other complaints of this kind being daily made ...
الصفحة 32
... friend or neighbour , because some favourable event has happened to me ; but to remember , in every occurrence of that flattering kind , that the poor fly , who knew not how his peculiar fortune came about , foresaw not to what ruin he ...
... friend or neighbour , because some favourable event has happened to me ; but to remember , in every occurrence of that flattering kind , that the poor fly , who knew not how his peculiar fortune came about , foresaw not to what ruin he ...
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الصفحة 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
الصفحة 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
الصفحة 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
الصفحة 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
الصفحة 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
الصفحة 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
الصفحة 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
الصفحة 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
الصفحة 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
الصفحة 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...