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Page 182 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 320 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams LESSON XV.
Page 110 - If the personages of the comic scene be allowed by Horace to raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid vehemence of tragedy, the epistolary writer may likewise, without censure, comply with the varieties of his matter.
Page 131 - The persons inside the coach were Mr. Miller, a clergyman; his son, a lawyer ; Mr. Angelo, a foreigner ; his lady ; and a little child.
Page 200 - who knoweth whereof we are made," and of what we are capable. It is true, we are not all equally happy in our dispositions; but human virtue consists in cherishing and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are so happy as to have a good one while young, do not suppose it will...
Page 100 - The desolate misanthropy of his mind rises, and throws its dark shade over his poetry like one of his own ruined castles ; we feel it to be sublime, but we forget that it is a sublimity it cannot have till it is abandoned by every thing that is kind, and peaceful, and happy, and its halls are ready to become the haunts of outlaws and assassins.
Page 120 - A slight perusal of the innumerable letters by which the wits of France have signalized their names, will prove that other nations need not be discouraged from the like attempts by the consciousness of inability...
Page 130 - In order to show the necessity of not merely using points, but punctuating properly, the following passage from a work on this subject, in which it is given as a study, but without any key, is submitted to the reader: — " The persons inside the coach were Mr. Miller a clergyman his son a lawyer Mr. Angelo a foreigner his lady and a little child.
Page 248 - To be perfectly polite, one must have great presence of mind, with a delicate and quick sense of' propriety ; or, in other words, one should be able to form an instantaneous judgment of what is fittest to be said or done, on 144 . every occasion as it offers.
Page 110 - But it is natural to depart from familiarity of language upon occasions not familiar. Whatever elevates the sentiments will consequently raise the expression ; whatever fills us with hope or terror, will produce some perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of phrase.