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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... Hope raises in the dif tempered imaginations , although difappointment attends every step , and mocks every endeavour . We either find the objects of our wifhes recede in proportion to our advances , or , if poffeffed , that they prove ...
... Hope raises in the dif tempered imaginations , although difappointment attends every step , and mocks every endeavour . We either find the objects of our wifhes recede in proportion to our advances , or , if poffeffed , that they prove ...
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... hope to find unmixed happiness . There is one fource of pleasure which the enjoyment of wealth opens to a rational mind , but few there are who find it . The extenfion of help to the helplefs , of relief to mifery , and of comfort to ...
... hope to find unmixed happiness . There is one fource of pleasure which the enjoyment of wealth opens to a rational mind , but few there are who find it . The extenfion of help to the helplefs , of relief to mifery , and of comfort to ...
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... hope will end in certainty , and the panting bofom of defire will repofe in compleat fruition . It is undoubtedly a proof of wisdom in us to feek that happiness which is attainable in this life , agreeable to the dictates of reafon and ...
... hope will end in certainty , and the panting bofom of defire will repofe in compleat fruition . It is undoubtedly a proof of wisdom in us to feek that happiness which is attainable in this life , agreeable to the dictates of reafon and ...
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... hope the occafion of it will render any apology unneceffary . Lord Fairfield would not have been fo troublesome , if he had not been too much charmed with the beauty of Mifs Flowerdale , to be able to remain any longer without ...
... hope the occafion of it will render any apology unneceffary . Lord Fairfield would not have been fo troublesome , if he had not been too much charmed with the beauty of Mifs Flowerdale , to be able to remain any longer without ...
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... hope you will behave with more propriety , and find your tongue . Confider , Cecy , what a prodigious match this will be for you . Lord Fairfield is , I fwear , a mighty pretty Gentleman , and feems to be extremely good - natured ...
... hope you will behave with more propriety , and find your tongue . Confider , Cecy , what a prodigious match this will be for you . Lord Fairfield is , I fwear , a mighty pretty Gentleman , and feems to be extremely good - natured ...
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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.