Continuation of the RamblerF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... soon relaxed . Necessity of perse- verance 128. Anxiety universal . The unhappiness of a wit and a fine lady 129. The folly of cowardice and inactivity · 351 • 358 • 364 370 NUMB . Page 130. The history of a beauty 131. CONTENTS .
... soon relaxed . Necessity of perse- verance 128. Anxiety universal . The unhappiness of a wit and a fine lady 129. The folly of cowardice and inactivity · 351 • 358 • 364 370 NUMB . Page 130. The history of a beauty 131. CONTENTS .
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... soon an idle purpose to do an action , sinks into a mournful wish that it had once been done . We are frequently importuned , by the bacchana- lian writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach ...
... soon an idle purpose to do an action , sinks into a mournful wish that it had once been done . We are frequently importuned , by the bacchana- lian writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach ...
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... soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
... soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
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... soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have compelled to marry the old lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this ...
... soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have compelled to marry the old lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this ...
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... soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per ...
... soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per ...
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Page 136 - 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.
Page 145 - 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. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 441 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 233 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 95 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast...
Page 94 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 149 - Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart, Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out, Death ! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death...
Page 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 105 - ... inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...