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... force a way , and re- ward the vexation of contest by the pleasures of victo- ry . But a time must come when our policy and brave- ry shall be equally useless : when we shall all sink into helplessness and sadness , without any power of ...
... force a way , and re- ward the vexation of contest by the pleasures of victo- ry . But a time must come when our policy and brave- ry shall be equally useless : when we shall all sink into helplessness and sadness , without any power of ...
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... force of partial in- fluence , has filled his mind with the excellence of vir tue , and , having never tried his resolution in any en- counters with hope or fear , believes it able to stand firm whatever shall oppose it , will be always ...
... force of partial in- fluence , has filled his mind with the excellence of vir tue , and , having never tried his resolution in any en- counters with hope or fear , believes it able to stand firm whatever shall oppose it , will be always ...
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... in which she endeavoured to force respect by haughtiness of mien and vehemence of lan- guage ; but having neither birth , beauty , nor wit , in " any uncommon degree , she suffered such mortifications from 38 No. 74 . THE RAMBLER .
... in which she endeavoured to force respect by haughtiness of mien and vehemence of lan- guage ; but having neither birth , beauty , nor wit , in " any uncommon degree , she suffered such mortifications from 38 No. 74 . THE RAMBLER .
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... force of argument against a stupid contempt of life , and rash precipitation into unnecessary danger . Every recession from temerity is an approach towards cowardice ; and though it be confessed that bravery , like other virtues ...
... force of argument against a stupid contempt of life , and rash precipitation into unnecessary danger . Every recession from temerity is an approach towards cowardice ; and though it be confessed that bravery , like other virtues ...
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... force acts upon the body is very little subject to the regulation of the will ; no man can at pleasure obtund or invigorate his senses , prolong the agency of any impulse , or continue the presence of any image traced upon the eye , or ...
... force acts upon the body is very little subject to the regulation of the will ; no man can at pleasure obtund or invigorate his senses , prolong the agency of any impulse , or continue the presence of any image traced upon the eye , or ...
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Seite 150 - 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.
Seite 142 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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.
Seite 151 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder, broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain.
Seite 126 - His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that aspect...
Seite 167 - An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.
Seite 126 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Seite 153 - Transform'd : but he my inbred enemy 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.
Seite 198 - In the midst of the current of Life, was the gulph of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose ; and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
Seite 61 - For surely nothing can so much disturb the passions or perplex the intellects of man as the disruption of his union with visible nature; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him; a change, not only of the place, but the manner of his being; an entrance into a state not simply which he knows not, but which, perhaps, he has not faculties to know; an immediate and perceptible communication with the Supreme Being, and, what is above all distressful and alarming, the final sentence...
Seite 196 - ... turbulent, was yet irresistible, bore him away. Beyond these islands, all was darkness ; nor could any of the passengers describe the shore at which he first embarked.