Beauties of British ProseBrook and Lancashire, 1805 - 360 páginas |
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... look back upon our lives with horror , with 66 sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often " vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of " virtue . Happy are they , my son , who shall learn " from thy example not to ...
... look back upon our lives with horror , with 66 sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often " vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of " virtue . Happy are they , my son , who shall learn " from thy example not to ...
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... look round with discontent , are displeased with the abode , and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell . The trees we have planted , the houses we have built , or the poste- rity we have begotten , all ...
... look round with discontent , are displeased with the abode , and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell . The trees we have planted , the houses we have built , or the poste- rity we have begotten , all ...
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... looks back with regret on his former days , and with sighs recalls to his mind the times of health and vigour , when his hours of leisure were few , but those few were marked with an inward satisfaction . He reflects on past industry ...
... looks back with regret on his former days , and with sighs recalls to his mind the times of health and vigour , when his hours of leisure were few , but those few were marked with an inward satisfaction . He reflects on past industry ...
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... look forward to a better state of existence , where hap- piness shall be for ever united to virtue , and pain and sorrow shall be known no more , -A THE DEAD ASS . Sterne ND this , said he , putting the remains of a crust into his ...
... look forward to a better state of existence , where hap- piness shall be for ever united to virtue , and pain and sorrow shall be known no more , -A THE DEAD ASS . Sterne ND this , said he , putting the remains of a crust into his ...
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... look another way , and he seized this opportunity of giving the poor petitioner a piece of silver , bidding him at the same time , in order that I should hear , go work for his bread , and not teaze passengers with such impertinent ...
... look another way , and he seized this opportunity of giving the poor petitioner a piece of silver , bidding him at the same time , in order that I should hear , go work for his bread , and not teaze passengers with such impertinent ...
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Página 347 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Página 345 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in .the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at everything that stood by them to save themselves.
Página 346 - ... that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Página 346 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 343 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Página 344 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Página 343 - that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? '
Página 346 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas ! 'said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Página 17 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Página 344 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other. What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...