Essays and Letters ... With a short memoir of the authorE. Nettleton, 1825 - 210 páginas |
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... continue to the termination of my existence , or till I offend against decorum , gratitude , or humility . It has long since been an endeavour with me to make a small collection of books for myself . For I imagine that a small number of ...
... continue to the termination of my existence , or till I offend against decorum , gratitude , or humility . It has long since been an endeavour with me to make a small collection of books for myself . For I imagine that a small number of ...
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... me in a very contracted sphere of life , where the soarings of an ardent spirit must be checked , and where I must ever continue to grope in mental darkness and degradation ! Believe me , Sir , it is with the most 20 LETTERS .
... me in a very contracted sphere of life , where the soarings of an ardent spirit must be checked , and where I must ever continue to grope in mental darkness and degradation ! Believe me , Sir , it is with the most 20 LETTERS .
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... continue blessed with health and vigour , to forget that we are not to live for ever . We plan schemes for futurity ; we hope for honour , for riches , and happiness ; and we fear anticipated misfortune , and poverty , and sorrow ...
... continue blessed with health and vigour , to forget that we are not to live for ever . We plan schemes for futurity ; we hope for honour , for riches , and happiness ; and we fear anticipated misfortune , and poverty , and sorrow ...
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... continue to read those books which I think most likely to im- prove my understanding , rather than those which would render me acquainted with the material world . Books of the latter description , however , will be an agreeable relief ...
... continue to read those books which I think most likely to im- prove my understanding , rather than those which would render me acquainted with the material world . Books of the latter description , however , will be an agreeable relief ...
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... continue to be as deficient in information as you now are ; and , above all , you will want the approbation of your own heart . Do not think , my dearest friend , that I suppose you will adopt this extreme - far , very far from it : yet ...
... continue to be as deficient in information as you now are ; and , above all , you will want the approbation of your own heart . Do not think , my dearest friend , that I suppose you will adopt this extreme - far , very far from it : yet ...
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Página 89 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem, So with two seeming bodies but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,...
Página 79 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest — A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend. Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures...
Página 172 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 140 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Página 85 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 138 - And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved. Those only are the brave that keep their ground, And keep it to the last. To run away Is but a coward's trick: to run away From this world's ills, that at the very worst Will soon blow o'er, thinking to mend ourselves By boldly venturing on a world unknown, And plunging headlong in the dark; 'tis mad: No frenzy half so desperate as this.
Página 161 - With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 72 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil...
Página 138 - How long, how short, we know not: this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission; Like sentries that must keep their destined stand, And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved.
Página 104 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.