Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, المجلد 6author, 1797 |
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... Such , my fon , was the vifion which the pro- phet vouchfafed me , not for my fake only , but for thine . Thou haft fought felicity in temporal things , and therefore thou art disappointed . Let not inftruction be loft upon thee , as ...
... Such , my fon , was the vifion which the pro- phet vouchfafed me , not for my fake only , but for thine . Thou haft fought felicity in temporal things , and therefore thou art disappointed . Let not inftruction be loft upon thee , as ...
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... Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar- rative . Eumenius , a barrifter of confiderable eminence in Lincoln's Inn , a few days back , was waited on by a Lady , who had mistaken him for ...
... Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar- rative . Eumenius , a barrifter of confiderable eminence in Lincoln's Inn , a few days back , was waited on by a Lady , who had mistaken him for ...
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... Such reflections as thefe fhould indeed be always made at the time when the events do befal us . But if not made then , they fhould at fome time ; unless fome time be appointed for making them . " And what time fo fit as that , when one ...
... Such reflections as thefe fhould indeed be always made at the time when the events do befal us . But if not made then , they fhould at fome time ; unless fome time be appointed for making them . " And what time fo fit as that , when one ...
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... Such has been thy pursuit after happiness . Then induftry was prompted by the hope of gain , and the defire of riches , for the purposes of fenfuality ; vanity has made the profufe , and thou haft extended thy pa- tronage to obtain the ...
... Such has been thy pursuit after happiness . Then induftry was prompted by the hope of gain , and the defire of riches , for the purposes of fenfuality ; vanity has made the profufe , and thou haft extended thy pa- tronage to obtain the ...
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... Such is the moral to be drawn from the scene thou haft contemplated : be wife , obferve it , and be happy . " Here the Genius withdrew , in a blaze of ef- fulgence ; and the fun - beams , at that moment playing on the eyes of Haffan ...
... Such is the moral to be drawn from the scene thou haft contemplated : be wife , obferve it , and be happy . " Here the Genius withdrew , in a blaze of ef- fulgence ; and the fun - beams , at that moment playing on the eyes of Haffan ...
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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.