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... pleasure it conveyed ) , as I now feel at sending this , perhaps too voluminous , collection into the world . This self - distrust may naturally be accounted for , by reflecting that this publication is deliberately made , not only at a ...
... pleasure it conveyed ) , as I now feel at sending this , perhaps too voluminous , collection into the world . This self - distrust may naturally be accounted for , by reflecting that this publication is deliberately made , not only at a ...
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... pleasure or of moral profit . Let him unaffectedly rate his humble but not unuseful labours at their just price , nor despondingly conclude that he has written altogether in vain , though he do not see a public revolution of manners ...
... pleasure or of moral profit . Let him unaffectedly rate his humble but not unuseful labours at their just price , nor despondingly conclude that he has written altogether in vain , though he do not see a public revolution of manners ...
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... pleasure , the eyes of the greater part are closed , to open no more in this world . Even while the pen is in my hand framing this remark , more than one affecting corroboration of its truth occurs . May this reflection , at once ...
... pleasure , the eyes of the greater part are closed , to open no more in this world . Even while the pen is in my hand framing this remark , more than one affecting corroboration of its truth occurs . May this reflection , at once ...
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... pleasure be the motive , disallow All high incentives drawn from God's command : Where shall we trace , through all the page profane , A livelier pleasure and a purer source Of innocent delight , than the fair book Of holy Truth ...
... pleasure be the motive , disallow All high incentives drawn from God's command : Where shall we trace , through all the page profane , A livelier pleasure and a purer source Of innocent delight , than the fair book Of holy Truth ...
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... 'r ! Mad'st the keen rapture exquisite as right ; Beyond the joys of sense ; as pleasure sweet , As reason vigorous , and as instinct strong ! MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES . PART III . Enter JOCHEbed c 3 A SACRED DRAMA . 127.
... 'r ! Mad'st the keen rapture exquisite as right ; Beyond the joys of sense ; as pleasure sweet , As reason vigorous , and as instinct strong ! MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES . PART III . Enter JOCHEbed c 3 A SACRED DRAMA . 127.
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1st Cour Abner Araspes Babylon behold Belshazzar BIRTHA Bishop BONNER bless blest bliss boast bold bon-ton breast bright Chaldea charms crown crown'd Daniel dare Darius DAVID AND GOLIATH death decree deeds delight divine dread E'en e'er eternal Euphrates ev'ry fair faith fame fancy fate fear feel flame FLORIO fond glory God's grace hand hear heart Heav'n holy honour hope human humble IANTHE IANTHE's impart Israel JOCHEBED king live Lord lov'd lyre Mede mercy mighty mind moral Muse ne'er never nymph o'er passion peace Phar Pharaoh Pharnaces Philistia pleasure pow'r praise prayer pride prince promis'd prophet reign sacred sage saint Saul scene shades sight song SORANUS soul spirit sweet tale taste tears tell thee thine things thou hast thought trembling truth Twas vex'd virgin train virtue wealth Whate'er wisdom word youth
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Page 247 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 79 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 135 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 391 - 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 159 - A drop, dissevered from the boundless sea ; A moment, parted from eternity ; A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come ; An exile, anxious for his native home.
Page 84 - Not circumscrib'd by time not fix'd to space, Confin'd to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee...
Page 6 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 10 - O sad estate Of human wretchedness ! so weak is man, So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruin'd at our own request. Too well thou know'st, my child, the stern decree Of Egypt's cruel king, hard-hearted Pharaoh ; " That every male of Hebrew mother born
Page 173 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
Page 317 - FLORIO knew the WORLD ; that science Sets sense and learning at defiance ; He thought the World to him was known, Whereas he only knew the Tovm ; In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set — Mankind.