 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...from thyself ! how is all my attention broken ! my booki are blank paper, and my friends intruders. rth. Humour. I mi the c ight extend the allegory,...children of False Humour, who are more in number than of a companion. I bear the former in hope« of the latter condition. As I live iu chains without murmuring... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...' 1 thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to grant...empire, of beauty. If you would consider aright, you will find an agreeable change in dismissing the attendance of a slave, to receive the complaisance... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies. Sluiitptare. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire, of beauty. Stale. BEAUTY— Qualities of. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny ; Plato, privilege of nature... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...frd n thyself! how is all my attention broken! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant...find an agreeable change in dismissing the attendance ol a slave, to receive the complaisance ot a companion. I bear the former in hopes of the latter condition.... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...from thyself! How is all thy attention broken! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to grant...would make more for your triumph. To give pain, is tyranny ; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright, you would find an... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...from thyself! How is all thy attention broken! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to grant...would make more for your triumph. To give pain, is tyranny ; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright, you would find an... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...from thyself I how is all my attention broken I my books ore blank paper, and my friends intruders. nstitution exempts the king from responsibility, for...interest in his character, for we think that his sentenc complacence of a companion. I bear the former in hopes of the latter condition. As I live in chains... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 pages
...new religion where'er she comes, Unite the differing faiths of all the world, To idolize her fnce. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire, of beauty. True beauty is that, without or within, which yields pleasure and awakens gratitude. There is a philosophical... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature ; and Ovid, that it was a favour bestowed by the gods. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire, of beauty. Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man ? a world without a sun. Beauty has ever... | |
 | Alice Crowther - 1883 - 174 pages
...beholder. —Zimmerman. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. — Bacon. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire, of beauty. — Steels. Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon... | |
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How art thou, oh my soul, stolen from thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant it, would make more for your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny,... 
