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... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influ- ence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible instillations . They operate unseen and ...
... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influ- ence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible instillations . They operate unseen and ...
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... produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my heart , but to enquire by what means I may re- cover my tranquillity ; and shall endeavour at bre- vity in my narrative , having long known that com ...
... produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my heart , but to enquire by what means I may re- cover my tranquillity ; and shall endeavour at bre- vity in my narrative , having long known that com ...
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... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
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... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
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... produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which at ...
... produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which at ...
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Seite 413 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Seite 124 - 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 133 - 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 411 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Seite 82 - 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.
Seite 138 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? The...
Seite 105 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Seite 107 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Seite 48 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Seite 82 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...