Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2author, 1794 - 304 páginas |
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... riches , they were , literally , running to ruin . When a man and his wife are both feized with a furious propenfity to make a flash in the world , when their youthful days are over , and with that propenfity , likewife , have a lofty ...
... riches , they were , literally , running to ruin . When a man and his wife are both feized with a furious propenfity to make a flash in the world , when their youthful days are over , and with that propenfity , likewife , have a lofty ...
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... riches of the world fo much as to enter into competition with the love of his country . " So Thebes , by his merit only , was raised to the highest pitch of glory , as Athens was kept from deftruction folely by Demofthenes . INDOLENCE ...
... riches of the world fo much as to enter into competition with the love of his country . " So Thebes , by his merit only , was raised to the highest pitch of glory , as Athens was kept from deftruction folely by Demofthenes . INDOLENCE ...
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... - ous to leave fome riches to his fon , confults the oracle of Apollo upon the fubject . The oracle 1 bids him follow the firft man he fhould fee upon bids ( 76 ) ficulties, and pains and forrows, fuch as teftify ...
... - ous to leave fome riches to his fon , confults the oracle of Apollo upon the fubject . The oracle 1 bids him follow the firft man he fhould fee upon bids ( 76 ) ficulties, and pains and forrows, fuch as teftify ...
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... riches , and that he was just come out of the houfe of a mifer . Plutus further told him , that when he was a boy , he used to declare , that as foon as he came to age , he would diftribute wealth to none but virtuous and juft men ...
... riches , and that he was just come out of the houfe of a mifer . Plutus further told him , that when he was a boy , he used to declare , that as foon as he came to age , he would diftribute wealth to none but virtuous and juft men ...
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... riches de firable . She likewife reprefented to him the feveral advantages which fhe bestowed upon her votaries , in regard to their fhape , their health , and their activity , by preferving them from gouts , dropfies , unwieldinefs ...
... riches de firable . She likewife reprefented to him the feveral advantages which fhe bestowed upon her votaries , in regard to their fhape , their health , and their activity , by preferving them from gouts , dropfies , unwieldinefs ...
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Página 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
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Página 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Página 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 207 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Página 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Página 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Página 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.