The Rambler: In Three Volumes ...S. and R. Bentley, 1823 - English essays |
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... soon relaxed . Necessity of perse- verance • · · 128. Anxiety universal . The unhappiness of a wit and a fine lady 129. The folly of cowardice and inactivity 344 351 358 · 364 . 370 NUMB . 130. The history of a beauty Page . CONTENTS .
... soon relaxed . Necessity of perse- verance • · · 128. Anxiety universal . The unhappiness of a wit and a fine lady 129. The folly of cowardice and inactivity 344 351 358 · 364 . 370 NUMB . 130. The history of a beauty Page . CONTENTS .
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... soon an idle purpose to do an action , sinks into a mournful wish that it had once been done . We are frequently importuned , by the bacchana- lian writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach ...
... soon an idle purpose to do an action , sinks into a mournful wish that it had once been done . We are frequently importuned , by the bacchana- lian writers , to lay hold on the present hour , to catch the pleasures within our reach ...
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... soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
... soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
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... soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have compelled to marry the old lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this ...
... soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have compelled to marry the old lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this ...
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... soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per ...
... soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per ...
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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.