Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 páginas |
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... look at them , and that is all the use you can make of them yourself . So there is no difference between us , except that you have the trouble of watching them , and that is an employment I don't much de- sire . " - Goldsmith's Citizen ...
... look at them , and that is all the use you can make of them yourself . So there is no difference between us , except that you have the trouble of watching them , and that is an employment I don't much de- sire . " - Goldsmith's Citizen ...
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... which God puts upon us in this world , by which we are to make evidence of our love and obedience to him , and of our fitness to be made members of his kingdom . Dr. Samuel Clarke's Sermons . When I look upon the tombs of the great , 24.
... which God puts upon us in this world , by which we are to make evidence of our love and obedience to him , and of our fitness to be made members of his kingdom . Dr. Samuel Clarke's Sermons . When I look upon the tombs of the great , 24.
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... look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epi- taphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone , my heart melts with ...
... look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epi- taphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone , my heart melts with ...
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... looks like weakness ; the best parts only qua- lify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . - Spectator . CONQUEROR . It is in your power always to come off conqueror , provided you will never engage in ...
... looks like weakness ; the best parts only qua- lify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . - Spectator . CONQUEROR . It is in your power always to come off conqueror , provided you will never engage in ...
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... look and swelling heart He kindly check'd the wanderings of his child . Ah ! there are those who gratefully can tell , How oft his skill detained the parting breath , Compos'd the tortur'd bosom's throbbing swell , And smooth'd to soft ...
... look and swelling heart He kindly check'd the wanderings of his child . Ah ! there are those who gratefully can tell , How oft his skill detained the parting breath , Compos'd the tortur'd bosom's throbbing swell , And smooth'd to soft ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Anatomy of Melancholy Anaxagoras Aphorisms beauty better blessed Cato's Letters Cicero Corruption dangerous dark death delight desire Dillwyn's Reflections divine earth enemy enjoyments Epictetus EPITAPH eternal evil fear feel flowers friendship give glowworm greatest happiness hath hear heart heaven honest honour hour instruct joys knowledge labour Lactantius laws learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon Lord Stair loseth man's mankind manner mind mirth moral never niscience noble numbers o'er old age once ourselves pain pass passions peace Penn's person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch possess praise pride Pyrrho Pythagoras reason religion riches sality Sir William Jones sleep sorrow soul sweet temper thee things Thomas a Kempis thou thoughts thousand tion tomb true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous Westminster Abbey wisdom wise wry neck youth
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Página 42 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Página 135 - Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way to the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed...
Página 39 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 34 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Página 156 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ; " for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.
Página 35 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Página 159 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Página 34 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 43 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.