Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, المجلد 6author, 1797 |
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... heart finks when I anticipate the moment in which eternity fhall close over the vacuity of my life , like the fea upon the path of a ship , and leave no traces of my existence more durable than the furrow which remains after the waves ...
... heart finks when I anticipate the moment in which eternity fhall close over the vacuity of my life , like the fea upon the path of a ship , and leave no traces of my existence more durable than the furrow which remains after the waves ...
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... 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 . The ...
... 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 . The ...
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... heart , Who , heav'n inftructed , chose the better part ; Since the has yielded to the ftroke of death , And in the prime of life refign'd her breath ; What has her weeping husband now to do , But feek in death a fafe affylum to ?. No ...
... heart , Who , heav'n inftructed , chose the better part ; Since the has yielded to the ftroke of death , And in the prime of life refign'd her breath ; What has her weeping husband now to do , But feek in death a fafe affylum to ?. No ...
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... heart . Take then your charge , and with fubmiffive mind , Be to your Heav'nly Father's will refign'd ; He ne'er afflicts his children , but to prove How great his goodness , and how strong his love . Though griefs affail , and forms of ...
... heart . Take then your charge , and with fubmiffive mind , Be to your Heav'nly Father's will refign'd ; He ne'er afflicts his children , but to prove How great his goodness , and how strong his love . Though griefs affail , and forms of ...
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... heart is a strong defire of happiness ; and , in minds of any worth , an ambition to be eminent in fomething : two biaffes , which emphatically mark the grandeur and immortality of the foul ; and , if properly di- rected , would raise ...
... heart is a strong defire of happiness ; and , in minds of any worth , an ambition to be eminent in fomething : two biaffes , which emphatically mark the grandeur and immortality of the foul ; and , if properly di- rected , would raise ...
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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.