Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 1author, 1794 - 1078 Seiten |
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... thou dull god ! why ly'ft thou with the vile In loathfome beds , and leav'ft the kingly couch A watch - cafe , or a common larum bell ? Wilt thou , upon the high and giddy mast , Seal up the fhip - boy's eyes , and rock his brains . In ...
... thou dull god ! why ly'ft thou with the vile In loathfome beds , and leav'ft the kingly couch A watch - cafe , or a common larum bell ? Wilt thou , upon the high and giddy mast , Seal up the fhip - boy's eyes , and rock his brains . In ...
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... thou thy felf art fink- ing . Whence is this thoughtlefs tranquillity , when thou and they are equally endangered ? " I looked , and feeing the Gulph of Intemperance before me , started and awaked . ANEC- A ANECDOTE OF CHARLES II ...
... thou thy felf art fink- ing . Whence is this thoughtlefs tranquillity , when thou and they are equally endangered ? " I looked , and feeing the Gulph of Intemperance before me , started and awaked . ANEC- A ANECDOTE OF CHARLES II ...
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... looks ufurp divine controul , And on their objects rivet all the foul : Thy light'ning far outftrips the poet's race ; E'en Otway's numbers yield to Siddons ' face . F Long Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn ( 33 )
... looks ufurp divine controul , And on their objects rivet all the foul : Thy light'ning far outftrips the poet's race ; E'en Otway's numbers yield to Siddons ' face . F Long Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn ( 33 )
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Joseph Addison. Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn thy killing , or tranfporting mien ; Humanely haft remov'd from mortal fight , Thofe eyes that fhed infufferable light ; Effects continue , rarely feen before ...
Joseph Addison. Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn thy killing , or tranfporting mien ; Humanely haft remov'd from mortal fight , Thofe eyes that fhed infufferable light ; Effects continue , rarely feen before ...
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... thou- fand foot and ten thoufand cavalry , in the year before Chrift 490 . This memorable day reflected the highest glory on Miltiades . To prevent his little army from being furrounded by the enemy , he drew it up with a mountain in ...
... thou- fand foot and ten thoufand cavalry , in the year before Chrift 490 . This memorable day reflected the highest glory on Miltiades . To prevent his little army from being furrounded by the enemy , he drew it up with a mountain in ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Seite 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Seite 190 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 190 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 189 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Seite 59 - I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures.
Seite 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Seite 25 - ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.
Seite 8 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Seite 45 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.