Solitude, Volume 2Vernor and Hood, Cuthell and Martin, 1805 - Loneliness |
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... RELIGION , has been represented in such dismal , disagreeable colours , by those who were incapable of tasting its fweets , and enjoying its advantages , that many difmifs it totally from all their schemes of happiness , and fly to it ...
... RELIGION , has been represented in such dismal , disagreeable colours , by those who were incapable of tasting its fweets , and enjoying its advantages , that many difmifs it totally from all their schemes of happiness , and fly to it ...
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... RELIGION , will feek Retirement , in the hours of profperity and content , as the only means by which they can be enjoyed in true perfection . The tranquillity of its fhades will give richness to their joys ; its uninterrupted quietude ...
... RELIGION , will feek Retirement , in the hours of profperity and content , as the only means by which they can be enjoyed in true perfection . The tranquillity of its fhades will give richness to their joys ; its uninterrupted quietude ...
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... RELIGION , and feeling how incompa- tible with their practice are most , if not all , the factitious joys of social life , retire from the corrupted scene , to contemplate , in facred pri- vacy , the attributes of a Being unalterably ...
... RELIGION , and feeling how incompa- tible with their practice are most , if not all , the factitious joys of social life , retire from the corrupted scene , to contemplate , in facred pri- vacy , the attributes of a Being unalterably ...
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... religious faction . His company , indeed , was equally agreeable to all the claffes of fociety ; and young and old ... Religion are faid to have fuf- fered by the abuse of his talents ; but the pre- cepts cepts of Christianity were ...
... religious faction . His company , indeed , was equally agreeable to all the claffes of fociety ; and young and old ... Religion are faid to have fuf- fered by the abuse of his talents ; but the pre- cepts cepts of Christianity were ...
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... religious writings . He was charg- ed with being a SCEPTIC ; * but from the propa- gation * The animofity which prevailed against this elegant writer scarcely outlived him . He died in the year 1776 ; and at that period , we find the ...
... religious writings . He was charg- ed with being a SCEPTIC ; * but from the propa- gation * The animofity which prevailed against this elegant writer scarcely outlived him . He died in the year 1776 ; and at that period , we find the ...
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Page 24 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 176 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 176 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 172 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 20 - Guilt is the source of sorrow ! 'tis the fiend, The avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings. The blest know none of this, But rest in everlasting peace of mind, And find the height of all their heaven is goodness.
Page 43 - ... directed the vengeance of the cruel Aurelian. The fame of Longinus, who was included among the numerous and perhaps innocent victims of her fear, will survive that of the queen who betrayed, or the tyrant who condemned him.
Page 171 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Page 66 - It never was the meaning of his raillery to mortify ; and therefore, far from offending, it seldom failed to please and delight even those who were the objects of it. To his friends, who were frequently the objects of it, there was not, perhaps, any one of all his great and amiable qualities which contributed more to endear his conversation.
Page 109 - Unknown in hell. The prostrate soul beneath A load of huge imagination heaves ; And all the horrors that the murderer feels With anxious flutterings wake the guiltless breast.
Page 306 - Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race : . Wide and more wide, th...