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... eye gazes a while on an eminence glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other ...
... eye gazes a while on an eminence glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other ...
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... eye and voice of the public should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the deformity of wicked- ness , from ...
... eye and voice of the public should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the deformity of wicked- ness , from ...
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... eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always declaimed , in the rage of ...
... eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always declaimed , in the rage of ...
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... eye , for defects and deviations which , in souls less enlightened , may be guiltless . But , surely , none can think without horror on that man's condi- tion , who had been more wicked in proportion as he had more means of excelling in ...
... eye , for defects and deviations which , in souls less enlightened , may be guiltless . But , surely , none can think without horror on that man's condi- tion , who had been more wicked in proportion as he had more means of excelling in ...
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... eye , or any sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and com- mand their stay ; we can facilitate and promote their recurrence ; we can either repress their in- trusion , or ...
... eye , or any sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and com- mand their stay ; we can facilitate and promote their recurrence ; we can either repress their in- trusion , or ...
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Página 94 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Página 422 - Whom have I to complain of but myself? Who this high gift of strength committed to me, In what part lodged, how easily bereft me, Under the seal of silence could not keep, But weakly to a woman must reveal it O'ercome with importunity and tears.
Página 433 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Página 135 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 431 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 94 - Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood, Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd The GOD that made both sky, air, earth, and heav'n Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole. Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Página 119 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing. These were from without The growing miseries, which Adam saw Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade, To sorrow...
Página 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 431 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Página 433 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.