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Pagina 10
... wise and active conquer difficulties By daring to attempt them : -sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard , And make the impossibility they fear . THERE are few spirits which cannot be overcome if dexterously 10.
... wise and active conquer difficulties By daring to attempt them : -sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard , And make the impossibility they fear . THERE are few spirits which cannot be overcome if dexterously 10.
Pagina 15
... wise man so demean him , drivelling idiocy Had well nigh been ashamed on't . For your crafty , Your worldly - wise man , he , above the rest , Weaves his own snares so fine , he's often caught in them . REPENTANCE , A salve , a comfort ...
... wise man so demean him , drivelling idiocy Had well nigh been ashamed on't . For your crafty , Your worldly - wise man , he , above the rest , Weaves his own snares so fine , he's often caught in them . REPENTANCE , A salve , a comfort ...
Pagina 17
... and esteem . HIGGON . GREATNESS , thou gaudy torment of our souls , The wise man's fetter , and the rage of fools . OTWAY . GUILT is the source of sorrow , ' tis the c 2 17 Science and virtue my sole contemplation, ...
... and esteem . HIGGON . GREATNESS , thou gaudy torment of our souls , The wise man's fetter , and the rage of fools . OTWAY . GUILT is the source of sorrow , ' tis the c 2 17 Science and virtue my sole contemplation, ...
Pagina 19
... Wise Heaven a genius less profound imparts ; His awful , hers is lovely ; his should tell How thunderbolts , and her's how roses fell . Her rapid mind decides , while his debates ; She feels a truth that he but calculates . He ...
... Wise Heaven a genius less profound imparts ; His awful , hers is lovely ; his should tell How thunderbolts , and her's how roses fell . Her rapid mind decides , while his debates ; She feels a truth that he but calculates . He ...
Pagina 28
... wise men flatter with the name of life ? YOUNG . THE fundamental qualities of true friendship are , constancy and fidelity . Without these material ingredients it is of no value . An inconstant man is not capable of friendship . He may ...
... wise men flatter with the name of life ? YOUNG . THE fundamental qualities of true friendship are , constancy and fidelity . Without these material ingredients it is of no value . An inconstant man is not capable of friendship . He may ...
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Pagina 87 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Pagina 148 - Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Pagina 65 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.
Pagina 227 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 161 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 53 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Pagina 161 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 23 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man. His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer and his will to serve.
Pagina 74 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
Pagina 177 - Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.