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... summons , and perish not more differently from each other , than the fowl that received the shot in her flight , from her that is killed upon the bush . 5 Among the many improvements made by the last centuries in 4 No 71 . THE RAMBLER .
... summons , and perish not more differently from each other , than the fowl that received the shot in her flight , from her that is killed upon the bush . 5 Among the many improvements made by the last centuries in 4 No 71 . THE RAMBLER .
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... receive pleasure from him , to encourage him to freedom and confidence , and to avoid any such appearance of superiority as may overbear and depress him . We see many that by this art only spend their days in the midst of caresses ...
... receive pleasure from him , to encourage him to freedom and confidence , and to avoid any such appearance of superiority as may overbear and depress him . We see many that by this art only spend their days in the midst of caresses ...
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... receive praise without the 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 ...
... receive praise without the 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 ...
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... received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the conta- gion of impatience , and produce anger rather than tenderness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my ...
... received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the conta- gion of impatience , and produce anger rather than tenderness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my ...
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... received passionate injunctions to be kind to her maid , and directions how the last offices should be performed ; but if before my arrival the sun happened to break out , or the wind to change , I met her at the door , or found her in ...
... received passionate injunctions to be kind to her maid , and directions how the last offices should be performed ; but if before my arrival the sun happened to break out , or the wind to change , I met her at the door , or found her in ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty CAPRICE celebrated censure considered contempt curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discover DRYDEN endeavoured envy equally excellence expected falsehood fancy favour fear FEBRUARY 16 flattered folly fortune frequently Galba genius gratifications happiness heart honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination inclination innu inquiry JUPITER justice justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives long con look mankind MARCH 12 marriage ment Milton mind miscarriage nature necessary negligence ness never nity numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets praise pride prudence racterize RAMBLER reason regard reproach rest rience SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments sometimes soon sophisms sound species SPECTA suffer surely syllables thing thou thought thousand tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue writers
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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.