Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2 |
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... youth and beauty . They are then incitements to virtue , preventatives from vice , and affection's fecurity . Never let your brow be clouded with refent- ment ! Never triumph in revenge ! Who is it that you affli & ? the man upon earth ...
... youth and beauty . They are then incitements to virtue , preventatives from vice , and affection's fecurity . Never let your brow be clouded with refent- ment ! Never triumph in revenge ! Who is it that you affli & ? the man upon earth ...
Page 74
... Youth , tho ' yet no loffes grieve you , “ Gay in health and many a grace , " Let not cloudlefs fkies deceive you ; " Summer gives to Autumn place . " On the tree of life eternal , Man let all thy hopes be ftay'd ; Which alone , for ...
... Youth , tho ' yet no loffes grieve you , “ Gay in health and many a grace , " Let not cloudlefs fkies deceive you ; " Summer gives to Autumn place . " On the tree of life eternal , Man let all thy hopes be ftay'd ; Which alone , for ...
Page 91
... youth who had been accustomed to military difcipline , and had endured the hardships of a campaign , though he might yield to the al- Jurements of pleasure , would not have time to at- tend to the refinements of delicacy . But the mo ...
... youth who had been accustomed to military difcipline , and had endured the hardships of a campaign , though he might yield to the al- Jurements of pleasure , would not have time to at- tend to the refinements of delicacy . But the mo ...
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... youth . The chearful man feels within himfelf a heart dilated by joy , and an imagination extending itfelf agreeably : his ideas , his thoughts , his defires , are fo arrayed and multiplied , as to open to him the path of happiness ...
... youth . The chearful man feels within himfelf a heart dilated by joy , and an imagination extending itfelf agreeably : his ideas , his thoughts , his defires , are fo arrayed and multiplied , as to open to him the path of happiness ...
Page 120
... youth in travel and obfervation , had retired from all human cares , to a fmall habitation on the banks of Oxus , where he converfed only with fuch as folicited his coun- fel . " Brother , " faid the philofopher , " thou haft fuffered ...
... youth in travel and obfervation , had retired from all human cares , to a fmall habitation on the banks of Oxus , where he converfed only with fuch as folicited his coun- fel . " Brother , " faid the philofopher , " thou haft fuffered ...
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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.