The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... happy effects ; and even in this life the energy of religion , the prevalence of custom , and the watchfulness of a well - disposed mind , may produce such a har- mony in the human frame , as may soften the cares of this life , and lift ...
... happy effects ; and even in this life the energy of religion , the prevalence of custom , and the watchfulness of a well - disposed mind , may produce such a har- mony in the human frame , as may soften the cares of this life , and lift ...
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... she con- siders to her own nature . Purity of heart , and benevolence of temper , are the only means of attaining this happy 1 turn of thought . The , one comprehends those speculations 8 NO . 49 . THE GLEANER . PAGE.
... she con- siders to her own nature . Purity of heart , and benevolence of temper , are the only means of attaining this happy 1 turn of thought . The , one comprehends those speculations 8 NO . 49 . THE GLEANER . PAGE.
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... happy beings , and who had created them only to be happy ; when a hungry fish , allured by the prospect of so full a repast , left his compa- nions , and throwing himself among the insects , like a hungry tiger into a sheep - fold ...
... happy beings , and who had created them only to be happy ; when a hungry fish , allured by the prospect of so full a repast , left his compa- nions , and throwing himself among the insects , like a hungry tiger into a sheep - fold ...
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... happy turn of observation , sees his Creator in every object that occurs to him ; the vilest weed , the meanest insect , as the vulgar term them , to him are incontestable evidences of the greatest of all truths ; and his life is one ...
... happy turn of observation , sees his Creator in every object that occurs to him ; the vilest weed , the meanest insect , as the vulgar term them , to him are incontestable evidences of the greatest of all truths ; and his life is one ...
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... happy in it , has created such innumerable series of beings , invisible to us ; nay , which if twenty thousand times larger than they are , would still be invisible to our unassisted eyes ! How infi- nite the wisdom that has provided ...
... happy in it , has created such innumerable series of beings , invisible to us ; nay , which if twenty thousand times larger than they are , would still be invisible to our unassisted eyes ! How infi- nite the wisdom that has provided ...
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Abah admiration Æneas Æneid Ajax Aleppo animal animalcules appeared Aristotle arms attention bashaw Beaumont and Fletcher beauty body Cadige called caterpillar charms colour contempt creature Curdistan death delight despise despise the sun Dido divine dreadful earth eggs elegant endeavour father flower fourth estate friends genius give Graces hand happy Hassein hath head heart honour human ideas imagination immediately infinite inhabitants insect INSPECTOR kind living look Lord LUCRETIUS Magiscatzin manner means ment Milton mind motion nature never night objects observation occasion pain parent passions perfect plant pleased pleasure poet poetry Polygnotus praise queen Quintilian Rabieh racter readers reptile scene seemed shew sight silence SILIUS ITALICUS sion soon soul species surface thee thing thou thought thousand tion Tlalock tragedy tree Virgil virtue whole wings worms young Zelis Zocathlan Zulima
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Seite 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Seite 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Seite 110 - 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. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Seite 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Seite 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Seite 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Seite 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Seite 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...