Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2 |
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... virtues , and make them illuftrious . An indolent man is fcarcely a man ; he wills and unwills at a breath : he may have good intentions of difcharging a duty , while that duty is at a diftance ; let it but approach , let him but view ...
... virtues , and make them illuftrious . An indolent man is fcarcely a man ; he wills and unwills at a breath : he may have good intentions of difcharging a duty , while that duty is at a diftance ; let it but approach , let him but view ...
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... virtues . VIRTUE THE SOLE FOUNDATION OF HAPPINESS . KNOW then this truth ( enough for man to know ) Virtue alone is happinefs below . The only point where human bliss stands still , And taftes the good without the fall to ill ; Where ...
... virtues . VIRTUE THE SOLE FOUNDATION OF HAPPINESS . KNOW then this truth ( enough for man to know ) Virtue alone is happinefs below . The only point where human bliss stands still , And taftes the good without the fall to ill ; Where ...
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... Virtue's very tears : Good from each object , from each place acquir'd , For ever exercis'd , yet never tir'd ; Never elated , while one man's opprefs'd ; Never dejected , while another's blefs'd ; And where no wants , no wifhes can ...
... Virtue's very tears : Good from each object , from each place acquir'd , For ever exercis'd , yet never tir'd ; Never elated , while one man's opprefs'd ; Never dejected , while another's blefs'd ; And where no wants , no wifhes can ...
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... Virtue with his greatest bliss ; At once his own bright profpect to be bleft , And strongest motive to affift the reft . Self - love thus pufh'd to focial , to divine , Gives thee to make thy neighbour's bleffings thine . Is this too ...
... Virtue with his greatest bliss ; At once his own bright profpect to be bleft , And strongest motive to affift the reft . Self - love thus pufh'd to focial , to divine , Gives thee to make thy neighbour's bleffings thine . Is this too ...
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... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with fo much pleafure , that were there no pofitive com- mand which enjoined , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge it for the natural gratification ...
... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with fo much pleafure , that were there no pofitive com- mand which enjoined , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge it for the natural gratification ...
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Page 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 295 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Page 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 207 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Page 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Page 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.