Essays and Letters ... With a short memoir of the authorE. Nettleton, 1825 - 210 páginas |
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... wish of being believed , I am no more a liar than Esop , or Gay , who make all creatures talk , think , and act as men ; or than Jotham , who , in the Bible , makes the trees go to elect a King to reign over them . By hyperbole I excite ...
... wish of being believed , I am no more a liar than Esop , or Gay , who make all creatures talk , think , and act as men ; or than Jotham , who , in the Bible , makes the trees go to elect a King to reign over them . By hyperbole I excite ...
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... wish once induced me to give too ready a credence to the errors of astrology , chiromancy , physiognomy , and natural magic ; and I had acquired the rudiments of the former of these pretended sciences before I suspected its fallibility ...
... wish once induced me to give too ready a credence to the errors of astrology , chiromancy , physiognomy , and natural magic ; and I had acquired the rudiments of the former of these pretended sciences before I suspected its fallibility ...
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... wish to study ? " To this I have generally replied in favour of History , Ethics , and Biography . I acknowledge , however , that I have never seriously considered the matter , or attempted to discover to what particular branch of ...
... wish to study ? " To this I have generally replied in favour of History , Ethics , and Biography . I acknowledge , however , that I have never seriously considered the matter , or attempted to discover to what particular branch of ...
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... wish to engage in that study : I wish to become acquainted with the mind , the duties , the virtues , the vices , and the manners of that wonderful creature Man . " What a piece of work is a Man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in ...
... wish to engage in that study : I wish to become acquainted with the mind , the duties , the virtues , the vices , and the manners of that wonderful creature Man . " What a piece of work is a Man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in ...
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... wish to become generally acquainted with the causes of all the various phenomena of the material World . Thus far only I desire to study Natural Philosophy , but I have no inclination to make any branch of it my particular study . I ...
... wish to become generally acquainted with the causes of all the various phenomena of the material World . Thus far only I desire to study Natural Philosophy , but I have no inclination to make any branch of it my particular study . I ...
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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.