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... Perhaps few authors have prefented themfelves before the publick , without wishing that fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is ...
... Perhaps few authors have prefented themfelves before the publick , without wishing that fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is ...
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... perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own dif- appointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ri- diculous than ourselves , except ...
... perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own dif- appointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ri- diculous than ourselves , except ...
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... perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I have heard how fome have been pacified with claret and a fupper , and others laid afleep with the foft notes of flattery . Though the nature of ...
... perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I have heard how fome have been pacified with claret and a fupper , and others laid afleep with the foft notes of flattery . Though the nature of ...
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... perhaps be made of greater use than the folemnities of profefted morality , and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions . But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of ...
... perhaps be made of greater use than the folemnities of profefted morality , and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions . But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of ...
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... perhaps regard them with fome kindness for being united with fo much merit . There have been men , indeed , fplen- didly wicked , whofe endowments threw a brightness on their crimes , and whom fearce any villainy made perfectly de ...
... perhaps regard them with fome kindness for being united with fo much merit . There have been men , indeed , fplen- didly wicked , whofe endowments threw a brightness on their crimes , and whom fearce any villainy made perfectly de ...
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Seite 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Seite 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro 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...
Seite 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Seite 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Seite 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Seite 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Seite 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
Seite 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Seite 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Seite 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.