The British Essayists: RamblerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... seems to incite wickedness to seek associates : though indeed another reason may be given ; for as guilt is propa- gated the power of reproach is diminished , and among numbers equally detestable , every individual may be sheltered from ...
... seems to incite wickedness to seek associates : though indeed another reason may be given ; for as guilt is propa- gated the power of reproach is diminished , and among numbers equally detestable , every individual may be sheltered from ...
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... and agility . Yet it seems to be the condition of our present state that pain should be more fixed and permanent than pleasure . Uneasiness gives way by slow de- grees , and is long before it quits its possession 28 78 . RAMBLER .
... and agility . Yet it seems to be the condition of our present state that pain should be more fixed and permanent than pleasure . Uneasiness gives way by slow de- grees , and is long before it quits its possession 28 78 . RAMBLER .
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... seem to pass on from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life , because they are wholly involved within themselves , and look on others only as inhabitants of the com- mon earth , without any expectation of ...
... seem to pass on from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life , because they are wholly involved within themselves , and look on others only as inhabitants of the com- mon earth , without any expectation of ...
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... seems to have been eminently adapted to this disposition of the mind ; it is formed to raise expectations by constant vicissitudes , and to obviate satiety by perpetual change . Wherever we turn our eyes , we find something to revive ...
... seems to have been eminently adapted to this disposition of the mind ; it is formed to raise expectations by constant vicissitudes , and to obviate satiety by perpetual change . Wherever we turn our eyes , we find something to revive ...
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... seems particularly to characterize the nature of man . Our sense of delight is in a great measure comparative , and arises at once from the sensations which we feel , and those which we remember : thus ease after torment is pleasure for ...
... seems particularly to characterize the nature of man . Our sense of delight is in a great measure comparative , and arises at once from the sensations which we feel , and those which we remember : thus ease after torment is pleasure for ...
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Ajax amusements attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity danger death delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discover DRYDEN duty easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes falsehood fancy favour fear felicity flattered fluence folly fortune frequently friends Gabba genius gratifications happiness heart honour hope hopes and fears hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind marriage ment Milton mind miscarriages misery nature necessary neglected negligence neral ness never numbers observed once opinion ourselves OVID Oxus pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets praise precepts pride racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach satiety SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophism suffer surely syllables tenderness thing thought tion torpid truth TUESDAY turally vanity verse Virgil virtue writers Zebe
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Page 117 - 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 120 - Transform'd : but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy :' I fled, and cried out Death ; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Page 192 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 109 - 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 354 - ... and such pleasures only imparted as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude. An elevated genius employed in little things appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less.
Page 96 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Page 32 - ... himself is ready to fall; not that he is more willing to die than formerly, but that he is more familiar to the death of others, and therefore is not alarmed so far as to consider how much nearer he approaches to his end.
Page 73 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 162 - ... opportunities for dexterity or courage, since, though none could retreat back from danger, yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction. It was, however, not very common to steer with much care or prudence; for, by some universal infatuation...
Page 118 - The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.