Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... or advantage which we now want ; and are easily perfuaded , that the moment of necef- fity , which we defire never to arrive , is at a great distance from us . Thus Thus life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety ( 5 )
... or advantage which we now want ; and are easily perfuaded , that the moment of necef- fity , which we defire never to arrive , is at a great distance from us . Thus Thus life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety ( 5 )
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... defire of avoiding labour , imprefs by degrees falfe terrors on the mind . But fear , whether natural or ac- quired , when once it has full poffeffion of the fancy , never fails to employ it upon visions of calamity ; fuch as , if they ...
... defire of avoiding labour , imprefs by degrees falfe terrors on the mind . But fear , whether natural or ac- quired , when once it has full poffeffion of the fancy , never fails to employ it upon visions of calamity ; fuch as , if they ...
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... the fame time , will frequently hefitate between dif ferent defires , till a rival has precluded him , or change his courfe as new attractions prevail , and harafs harafs himself without advancing . He who fee different ways ( 8 )
... the fame time , will frequently hefitate between dif ferent defires , till a rival has precluded him , or change his courfe as new attractions prevail , and harafs harafs himself without advancing . He who fee different ways ( 8 )
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... de- fire . The mind , by continual exercife , ripens to its perfection ; and by the fame means , is pre- ferved in vigour . It would have no fuch exercise in a state of uniform peace and tranquillity . Se- veral of our mental faculties ...
... de- fire . The mind , by continual exercife , ripens to its perfection ; and by the fame means , is pre- ferved in vigour . It would have no fuch exercise in a state of uniform peace and tranquillity . Se- veral of our mental faculties ...
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... defires . The wants of thofe who inhabit the torrid zone are easily supplied . They need no clothing , scarce any habitations ; and fruits , which ripen there to perfection , give them food without labour . Need we any other caufe for ...
... defires . The wants of thofe who inhabit the torrid zone are easily supplied . They need no clothing , scarce any habitations ; and fruits , which ripen there to perfection , give them food without labour . Need we any other caufe for ...
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Page 229 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 231 - Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 140 - cease your pother ; The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night And viewed it o'er by candle-light : I marked it well ; 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.' — ' Pray, sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue.
Page 191 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
Page 139 - gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Page 191 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 177 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Page 227 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 20 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...