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... soon found how little he was now affected by com- pliments , and how vainly they attempted , by flattery , to exhilarate the languor of weakness , and relieve the solicitude of approaching death . Whoever would know how much piety and ...
... soon found how little he was now affected by com- pliments , and how vainly they attempted , by flattery , to exhilarate the languor of weakness , and relieve the solicitude of approaching death . Whoever would know how much piety and ...
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... soon plunge into the gulph of eternity . It seems to me remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good , and extenuates our hatred of the bad . Those virtues which once we envied , as Horace observes , because they eclipsed ...
... soon plunge into the gulph of eternity . It seems to me remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good , and extenuates our hatred of the bad . Those virtues which once we envied , as Horace observes , because they eclipsed ...
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... soon overcame all the re- maining principles of kindness and piety , and both I and my brother were dispatched to board- ing - schools . How my mamma spent her time when she was thus disburdened I am not able to inform you , ' but I ...
... soon overcame all the re- maining principles of kindness and piety , and both I and my brother were dispatched to board- ing - schools . How my mamma spent her time when she was thus disburdened I am not able to inform you , ' but I ...
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... soon , and cannot stop the course of nature or of time , but am unhappily a woman before my mother can wil- lingly cease to be a girl . I believe you would contribute to the happiness of many families , if , by any arguments or ...
... soon , and cannot stop the course of nature or of time , but am unhappily a woman before my mother can wil- lingly cease to be a girl . I believe you would contribute to the happiness of many families , if , by any arguments or ...
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... soon as it is beheld . Such men found high and low stations equally unable to satisfy the wishes of a distempered mind , and were unable to shelter themselves in the closest retreat from disappointment , solicitude , and misery . Yet ...
... soon as it is beheld . Such men found high and low stations equally unable to satisfy the wishes of a distempered mind , and were unable to shelter themselves in the closest retreat from disappointment , solicitude , and misery . Yet ...
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Page 78 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Page 47 - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one...
Page 239 - 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 74 - Here Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.
Page 74 - Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground. This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might soothe or divert him. He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade...
Page 209 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 197 - But thou hast promis'd 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 223 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Page 76 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome *him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the bramble?, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 298 - ... associates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course.