Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 2author., 1794 - 240 Seiten |
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... earth , they would ftill be unfatis- fied , and , like Alexander , weep because there was no other world within their reach to plunder . Others , whofe defires are more circumfcribed , and who appear contented with their prefent pof ...
... earth , they would ftill be unfatis- fied , and , like Alexander , weep because there was no other world within their reach to plunder . Others , whofe defires are more circumfcribed , and who appear contented with their prefent pof ...
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... earth , why oaks are made Taller and ftronger than the weeds they fhade ? Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's fatellites are lefs than Jove ? Of fyftems poffible , if ' tis confeft That wifdom infinite muft form the beft ...
... earth , why oaks are made Taller and ftronger than the weeds they fhade ? Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's fatellites are lefs than Jove ? Of fyftems poffible , if ' tis confeft That wifdom infinite muft form the beft ...
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... earth , ftruck his breaft , and curfed the hour when he fell in with a man fo abominable . " It is in vain that I warn you , " faid the angel ; " you again relapfe into your for- mer error : but for the last time I caution you to be ...
... earth , ftruck his breaft , and curfed the hour when he fell in with a man fo abominable . " It is in vain that I warn you , " faid the angel ; " you again relapfe into your for- mer error : but for the last time I caution you to be ...
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... earth gave you offence in your cell . You dared to call in queftion his wisdom , and to prepare yourself to confult earthly beings , and to endeavour founding the impene- trable abyss of his councils . You had perished that moment , if ...
... earth gave you offence in your cell . You dared to call in queftion his wisdom , and to prepare yourself to confult earthly beings , and to endeavour founding the impene- trable abyss of his councils . You had perished that moment , if ...
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... labourers and poor artists ; and they them- felves , being obliged , as in their first state , to cul- tivate the earth , will become poffeffed of more humility and goodness . " " You " You force my approbation of your conduct , " ( 56 )
... labourers and poor artists ; and they them- felves , being obliged , as in their first state , to cul- tivate the earth , will become poffeffed of more humility and goodness . " " You " You force my approbation of your conduct , " ( 56 )
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Beliebte Passagen
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 45 - Look'd through ? or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee ? II.
Seite 190 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. 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.
Seite 190 - Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart...
Seite 150 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death. Her looks were filled with terror and unrelenting severity, and her hands armed with whips and scorpions.
Seite 167 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand : To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign. Through him the rays of regal bounty shine, Turn'd by his nod the stream of honour flows, His smile alone security bestows...
Seite 232 - ... to the loiterer, who makes appointments which he never keeps; to the consulter, who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the...
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.
Seite 232 - ... who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances; to the usurer, who compares the different funds; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.