The Favourite of Nature, Band 1

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G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1821
 

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Seite 276 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.
Seite 223 - The sooty films that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding, in the view Of superstition, prophesying still, Though still...
Seite 275 - Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will send for thee.
Seite 7 - ... capable of amusing. But in every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquillity. In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state ; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it.
Seite 342 - But to centre all our joys and hopes, all our fears and anxieties, in any human object, so as to make the happiness of our lives depend solely or chiefly upon that; to raise our affections to their utmost pitch, to add to them all the heightenings of imagination, and to.
Seite 343 - ... depend solely or chiefly upon that ; to raise our affections to their utmost height ; to add to them all the heightenings of imagination, and to fix all this in a fairy world of our own,— this is...
Seite 323 - all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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