Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, المجلد 6author, 1797 |
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الصفحة 17
... Some ladies , in company with one gentleman , were expreffing their approbation of the graceful manner in which Helen leaves her loom to go to Paris , after his flight from Menelaus— “ Ah , la- dies , " fays he , " It is fine in Pope ...
... Some ladies , in company with one gentleman , were expreffing their approbation of the graceful manner in which Helen leaves her loom to go to Paris , after his flight from Menelaus— “ Ah , la- dies , " fays he , " It is fine in Pope ...
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... some friendly hand as ready to pro- claim his return , and depicture thofe actions which are allied to Benevolence , Compaffion , and Juftice . Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar ...
... some friendly hand as ready to pro- claim his return , and depicture thofe actions which are allied to Benevolence , Compaffion , and Juftice . Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar ...
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... Some were fent him from the Euphrates and Per- fian gulph , others from the Oans and Cafpian fea . One day , when he gave a dinner to his Nobles , Mahomet Ali , keeper of the three tombs , was placed next to the best dish of all the ...
... Some were fent him from the Euphrates and Per- fian gulph , others from the Oans and Cafpian fea . One day , when he gave a dinner to his Nobles , Mahomet Ali , keeper of the three tombs , was placed next to the best dish of all the ...
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... Some gave their tongues only , fome their bow- els ; fome their fat , and others their brains or blood . In short , they declared fuch conftant waste was made of them , that unlefs a stop was put to it in time , they should perish ...
... Some gave their tongues only , fome their bow- els ; fome their fat , and others their brains or blood . In short , they declared fuch conftant waste was made of them , that unlefs a stop was put to it in time , they should perish ...
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... Some gathered nofegays , while others culled the most beautiful flowers to ornament their hair ; and fome greedily devoured the various fruits , while others filled their pockets with them . Many , nevertheless , seemed to obey the ...
... Some gathered nofegays , while others culled the most beautiful flowers to ornament their hair ; and fome greedily devoured the various fruits , while others filled their pockets with them . Many , nevertheless , seemed to obey the ...
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الصفحة 247 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
الصفحة 122 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
الصفحة 248 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.
الصفحة 248 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
الصفحة 117 - ... a cracked bell — a bow unstrung — a crown tumbled in pieces — towers in ruins — the signpost of a tavern, called The World's End...
الصفحة 248 - Good, from each object, from each place acquir'd, For ever exercis'd, yet never tir'd; Never elated while one man's...
الصفحة 40 - And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure...
الصفحة 248 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives; The joy unequal'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose, attended with no pain: Without satiety, tho...
الصفحة 260 - Yet we would rather bind you to ourselves by every endearing obligation; and, for this purpose, we offer to you your choice of the gifts and honours that Edward has to bestow.
الصفحة 8 - remember what thou hast seen, and let this memorial be written upon the tablets of thy heart. Remember, Almet, that the world in which thou art placed, is but the road to another; and that happiness depends not upon the path, but the end: the value of this period of thy existence is fixed by hope and fear.