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... through routines of fashion and gaiety you who could never know a tithe of my loss - may deem my grief effeminate ; and the cold moralist may tell me , that the school of affliction is the entrance to self - knowledge ; 16.
... through routines of fashion and gaiety you who could never know a tithe of my loss - may deem my grief effeminate ; and the cold moralist may tell me , that the school of affliction is the entrance to self - knowledge ; 16.
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... grief , resolved not to return to London an unsuccessful adventurer . My voyage resembled that of life : " Bound on a voyage of awful length , " And dangers little known , " A stranger to superior strength , " Man vainly trusts his own ...
... grief , resolved not to return to London an unsuccessful adventurer . My voyage resembled that of life : " Bound on a voyage of awful length , " And dangers little known , " A stranger to superior strength , " Man vainly trusts his own ...
Page 59
... grief , yet that grief , " when the mind calmly reviews its object , changes into contentment , and is by degrees " exalted into veneration and a divine compo- sure ; our private will is lost in that of the Al- mighty ; and our security ...
... grief , yet that grief , " when the mind calmly reviews its object , changes into contentment , and is by degrees " exalted into veneration and a divine compo- sure ; our private will is lost in that of the Al- mighty ; and our security ...
Page 60
... direction was that safe belief That finds a home - a father - but no grief . O India , shout till echo mount the spheres- Your converts blush to own a brahmin's fears : Again to blaze forbid the funeral pile , Nor buried 60.
... direction was that safe belief That finds a home - a father - but no grief . O India , shout till echo mount the spheres- Your converts blush to own a brahmin's fears : Again to blaze forbid the funeral pile , Nor buried 60.
Page 93
... grief . " Ter conata loqui , ter fletibus ora rigavit . ” * My poor naval hero , unused , I suppose , to my plain manner , looked abashed and vanquished : her valiant habit was disowned by nature , and she caught the first opportunity ...
... grief . " Ter conata loqui , ter fletibus ora rigavit . ” * My poor naval hero , unused , I suppose , to my plain manner , looked abashed and vanquished : her valiant habit was disowned by nature , and she caught the first opportunity ...
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Page 28 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Page 35 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 17 - Icelander and sun-burnt Moor; Men of all climes, that never met before, And of all creeds, the Jew, the Turk, the Christian. Here the proud prince, and favourite yet prouder, His sovereign's keeper and the people's scourge, Are huddled out of sight.
Page 50 - Has echoed from the distant town, They wish no beds of cygnet-down, No trophied canopies, to close Their drooping eyes in quick repose. Their little sons, who spread the bloom Of health around the clay-built room, Or through the...
Page 31 - Heaven's early care prescribed for every age; First in the soul, and after in the page. Or, whether more abstractedly we look, Or on the writers, or the written book, Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths...
Page 30 - And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind, through all her powers, Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that T may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 28 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 51 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Page viii - For sure a sight like this might raise the arm Of duty, even to the breast of love! At least I'll throw this vizor of my patience off: Now wake him in his guilt, And barefaced front him with my wrongs.
Page i - MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless, and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on all sides; and may become' unhappy by numberless casualties, which he could not foresee, nor have prevented had he foreseen them. It is our comfort, while we are obnoxious to so many accidents, that we are under the care of ONE who directs contingencies, and has in his hands...