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... pain ; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its tower- ings , or are left behind in envy and despair . Good- humour boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power , and pleases principally by not ...
... pain ; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its tower- ings , or are left behind in envy and despair . Good- humour boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power , and pleases principally by not ...
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... painful and tedious course of sickness frequently produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of ... pain by which it is excited . Nearly approaching to this weakness , is the cap- tiousness of old age . When the ...
... painful and tedious course of sickness frequently produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of ... pain by which it is excited . Nearly approaching to this weakness , is the cap- tiousness of old age . When the ...
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... pain where kindness is intended ; I will , therefore , so far maintain my antiquated claim to politeness , as to venture the establishment of this rule , that no one ought to remind another of mis- fortunes of which the sufferer does ...
... pain where kindness is intended ; I will , therefore , so far maintain my antiquated claim to politeness , as to venture the establishment of this rule , that no one ought to remind another of mis- fortunes of which the sufferer does ...
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... pain which I have felt from degradation , is the loss of that influence which I had always ex- erted on the side of virtue , in the defence of inno- cence , and the assertion of truth . I now find my opinions slighted , my sentiments ...
... pain which I have felt from degradation , is the loss of that influence which I had always ex- erted on the side of virtue , in the defence of inno- cence , and the assertion of truth . I now find my opinions slighted , my sentiments ...
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... pain . Thus a new dress becomes easy by wearing it , and the palate is reconciled by degrees to dishes which at first disgusted it . That by long habit of carrying a burden , we lose , in great part , our sensibility of its weight , any ...
... pain . Thus a new dress becomes easy by wearing it , and the palate is reconciled by degrees to dishes which at first disgusted it . That by long habit of carrying a burden , we lose , in great part , our sensibility of its weight , any ...
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Página 441 - 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 136 - 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.
Página 104 - ... harmonically conjoined, and, by consequence, the flow of the verse is longer interrupted, It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh. This, with regard to our language, is evidently true, not because monosyllables cannot compose harmony, but because our monosyllables being of Teutonick original, or formed by contraction, commonly begin and end with consonants, as, • Every lower faculty Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste.
Página 443 - 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 435 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Página 148 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Página 120 - 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.
Página 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Página 94 - But thou hast promised 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 105 - ... to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence...