The Rambler: In Three Volumes ...S. and R. Bentley, 1823 - English essays |
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... interest , as well as my zeal for general happi- ness , makes me desirous to rectify ; for I have a friend , who , because he knows his own fidelity and usefulness , is never willing to sink into a companion : I have a wife whose beauty ...
... interest , as well as my zeal for general happi- ness , makes me desirous to rectify ; for I have a friend , who , because he knows his own fidelity and usefulness , is never willing to sink into a companion : I have a wife whose beauty ...
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... interest of their portions grew every day richer and prouder . My father pleased himself with foreseeing that the possessions of those ladies must revert at last to the hereditary estate , and that his family might lose none of its ...
... interest of their portions grew every day richer and prouder . My father pleased himself with foreseeing that the possessions of those ladies must revert at last to the hereditary estate , and that his family might lose none of its ...
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... interests which diversify the life of others with joys and hopes , but had turned our whole attention on one event , which we could neither has- ten nor retard , and had no other object of curiosity than the health or sickness of my ...
... interests which diversify the life of others with joys and hopes , but had turned our whole attention on one event , which we could neither has- ten nor retard , and had no other object of curiosity than the health or sickness of my ...
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... interest it is , that the eye and voice of the publick should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the ...
... interest it is , that the eye and voice of the publick should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the ...
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... of social nature ; if influenced by the cor- ruption of patrons , or readers , they sacrificed their own convictions to vanity or interest , they were to be abhorred with more acrimony than he that mur- ders N ° 77 . 41 THE RAMBLER .
... of social nature ; if influenced by the cor- ruption of patrons , or readers , they sacrificed their own convictions to vanity or interest , they were to be abhorred with more acrimony than he that mur- ders N ° 77 . 41 THE RAMBLER .
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Page 118 - 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. These were from without The growing miseries, which Adam saw Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade, To sorrow...
Page 425 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 143 - 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 423 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 227 - 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 92 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. 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 395 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 118 - 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 117 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.