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... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will ...
... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will ...
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... labour of contest , too tender for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little re- straint enrages , and a little difficulty perplexes him ; having been ...
... labour of contest , too tender for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little re- straint enrages , and a little difficulty perplexes him ; having been ...
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... labours of duty , and the sorrows of repentance . For this purpose every seducement and fallacy is sought , the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end ; and the last hour steals on unperceived , while the ...
... labours of duty , and the sorrows of repentance . For this purpose every seducement and fallacy is sought , the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end ; and the last hour steals on unperceived , while the ...
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... labour . Gloom and silence produce composure of mind , and concentration of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature enables ...
... labour . Gloom and silence produce composure of mind , and concentration of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature enables ...
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... labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care , boast of a snail that has crawled upon the wall of China ; a humming bird which an Ame- rican princess wore in her ear ; the tooth of ...
... labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care , boast of a snail that has crawled upon the wall of China ; a humming bird which an Ame- rican princess wore in her ear ; the tooth of ...
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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.