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... sorrow and lamentation : therefore the note is low . The next contains a spirited command , and should be pronounc- ed much higher . The other sentence , in which he makes a pathetic address to the mountains where his friends had been ...
... sorrow and lamentation : therefore the note is low . The next contains a spirited command , and should be pronounc- ed much higher . The other sentence , in which he makes a pathetic address to the mountains where his friends had been ...
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... sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returus : the moment which is lost ...
... sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returus : the moment which is lost ...
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... sorrow . It ought therefore to be t f those who wish to pass the last hours with core ure of pleasing ideas , as shall supe . Ly up shel C 1 expenses of that time which is to depend wholly The English Reader . PART t .
... sorrow . It ought therefore to be t f those who wish to pass the last hours with core ure of pleasing ideas , as shall supe . Ly up shel C 1 expenses of that time which is to depend wholly The English Reader . PART t .
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... sorrows . Would they look with a more im- partial eye on the world , they would see themselves sur- rounded with sufferers ; and find that they are only drink- ing out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all . " I will ...
... sorrows . Would they look with a more im- partial eye on the world , they would see themselves sur- rounded with sufferers ; and find that they are only drink- ing out of that mixed cup , which Providence has prepared for all . " I will ...
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... sorrows is universally perienced , and almost universally confessed . But let us not tend only to mournful truths : if we look impartially about we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures nd its joys . We should cherish ...
... sorrows is universally perienced , and almost universally confessed . But let us not tend only to mournful truths : if we look impartially about we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures nd its joys . We should cherish ...
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Common terms and phrases
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray Aristotle attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts death Democritus Descartes Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enemies enjoy enjoyment envy ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven hepa Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocent Jugurtha king labour lence live look Lord mankind ment Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r present prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising scene SECTION sense sentence shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity verse vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Popular passages
Page 223 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 228 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 229 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 177 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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 : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 216 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 186 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Page 241 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 217 - 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. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 172 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 236 - And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate. Left free the human will.