The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8 |
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... merit . If our afflic- tions are light , we shall be comforted by the com- parisons we make between ourselves and our fellow- sufferers . A loss at sea , a fit of sickness , or the death of a friend , are such trides , when we consider ...
... merit . If our afflic- tions are light , we shall be comforted by the com- parisons we make between ourselves and our fellow- sufferers . A loss at sea , a fit of sickness , or the death of a friend , are such trides , when we consider ...
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... merits , that all fondness towards them puts them out of countenance , and looks like a jest upon their persons . They grow suspicious on their first looking in a glass , and are stung with jealousy at the sight of a wrinkle . A ...
... merits , that all fondness towards them puts them out of countenance , and looks like a jest upon their persons . They grow suspicious on their first looking in a glass , and are stung with jealousy at the sight of a wrinkle . A ...
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... merit is robbed by artifice or detraction , it does but increase by such endeavours of its enemies . The impotent pains which are taken to sully it , or diffuse it among a crowd to the injury of a single person , will naturally produce ...
... merit is robbed by artifice or detraction , it does but increase by such endeavours of its enemies . The impotent pains which are taken to sully it , or diffuse it among a crowd to the injury of a single person , will naturally produce ...
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... merit in him that is possessed of it . A man is no more to be praised upon this account , than because he has a regular pulse or a good di- gestion . This good - nature , however , in the constitu- tion , which Mr. Dryden somewhere ...
... merit in him that is possessed of it . A man is no more to be praised upon this account , than because he has a regular pulse or a good di- gestion . This good - nature , however , in the constitu- tion , which Mr. Dryden somewhere ...
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... merit obliged to receive me kindly , and I think it incum- bent upon me to make her inclination go along with her duty . ' If a man would give himself leave to think , he would not be so unreasonable as to expect debau- chery and ...
... merit obliged to receive me kindly , and I think it incum- bent upon me to make her inclination go along with her duty . ' If a man would give himself leave to think , he would not be so unreasonable as to expect debau- chery and ...
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Page 97 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - ... seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage...
Page 204 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 65 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Page 80 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 148 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 355 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Page 317 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 319 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 66 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...