Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 páginas |
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... rise in it . A man that has a taste for music , painting , or architecture , is like one that has another sense , when compared with such as have no relish for those arts . The florist , the planter , the gardener , the husbandman ...
... rise in it . A man that has a taste for music , painting , or architecture , is like one that has another sense , when compared with such as have no relish for those arts . The florist , the planter , the gardener , the husbandman ...
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... rising in a thousand beautiful landscapes , without any certain order or regularity . In the other it is the same rich soil under the same happy climate , that has been laid out in walks and parterres , and cut into shape and beauty by ...
... rising in a thousand beautiful landscapes , without any certain order or regularity . In the other it is the same rich soil under the same happy climate , that has been laid out in walks and parterres , and cut into shape and beauty by ...
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... rise from a furious pre- tended zeal . I love to see a man zealous in a good matter , and espe- cially when his zeal shews itself for advancing morality , and promoting the happiness of mankind . But when I find the instruments he works ...
... rise from a furious pre- tended zeal . I love to see a man zealous in a good matter , and espe- cially when his zeal shews itself for advancing morality , and promoting the happiness of mankind . But when I find the instruments he works ...
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... rise above one another by several different degrees of perfection . For , to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped ; sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a human figure ...
... rise above one another by several different degrees of perfection . For , to return to our statue in the block of marble , we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped ; sometimes rough - hewn , and but just sketched into a human figure ...
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... rising body through the air . " CREECH'S HORACE . HERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not ...
... rising body through the air . " CREECH'S HORACE . HERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not ...
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Página 211 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Página 273 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 76 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 223 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 35 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Página 220 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Página 210 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 126 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 278 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Página 77 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.