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... thing so monstrous should exist in this profusion and prodigality of blessings ! The herbs , elastic with health , seem to partake of sensitive and animated life , and to feel under my hand the benediction I would bestow on them . What ...
... thing so monstrous should exist in this profusion and prodigality of blessings ! The herbs , elastic with health , seem to partake of sensitive and animated life , and to feel under my hand the benediction I would bestow on them . What ...
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... thing supplies me , while I am speaking , with whatever I possess of animation . Do you imagine that any contest of shepherds can afford them the same pleasure as I receive from the description of it ; or that even in their loves , how ...
... thing supplies me , while I am speaking , with whatever I possess of animation . Do you imagine that any contest of shepherds can afford them the same pleasure as I receive from the description of it ; or that even in their loves , how ...
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... things hath given but an imperfect one here , informing us that a happy life is one without impediment to virtue . * A happy life is * Aristoteles says in his " Ethics , " and repeats it in his ... thing LORD BROOKE AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . 7.
... things hath given but an imperfect one here , informing us that a happy life is one without impediment to virtue . * A happy life is * Aristoteles says in his " Ethics , " and repeats it in his ... thing LORD BROOKE AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . 7.
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... thing . A sound mind and sound body , which many think all- sufficient , are but receptacles for it . Happiness , like air and water , the other two great requisites of life , is composite . One kind of it suits one man , another kind ...
... thing . A sound mind and sound body , which many think all- sufficient , are but receptacles for it . Happiness , like air and water , the other two great requisites of life , is composite . One kind of it suits one man , another kind ...
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... things which shall outlive the least perishable in the whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best and ... thing we can achieve in poetry . I attempt no compo- sition which I foresee will occupy more than an hour or two ...
... things which shall outlive the least perishable in the whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best and ... thing we can achieve in poetry . I attempt no compo- sition which I foresee will occupy more than an hour or two ...
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Page 389 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Page 386 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 381 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 374 - ... than voice it with claims and challenges. Preserve likewise the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all. Embrace and invite helps and advices touching the execution of thy place, and do not drive away such as bring thee information as meddlers, but accept of them in good part.
Page 125 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 385 - But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite, and it were a good deed to make a list of them ; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Page 389 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 387 - Arras, opened and put abroad:" whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 58 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 385 - FOR A MAN'S SELF AN ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing in an orchard or garden. And certainly men that are great lovers of themselves waste the public. Divide with reason between self-love and society; and be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others; specially to thy king and country.