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... whole , ( even if fame be the object of pursuit ) is it not better to succeed as women , than to fail as men ? To shine , by walking ho- norably in the road which nature , custom , and education seem to have marked out , rather than to ...
... whole , ( even if fame be the object of pursuit ) is it not better to succeed as women , than to fail as men ? To shine , by walking ho- norably in the road which nature , custom , and education seem to have marked out , rather than to ...
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... whole Roman people had but one neck , that he might dispatch them at a blow , was himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russel were condemned to bleed under the most barbarous , though most dissipated and vo- luptuous ...
... whole Roman people had but one neck , that he might dispatch them at a blow , was himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russel were condemned to bleed under the most barbarous , though most dissipated and vo- luptuous ...
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cies , " is astonished , that her acquaintance can spend whole nights in preying , like harpies , on the fortunes of their fellow creatures , while the grave , sober sinner , who passes her pale and anxious vigils , in this fashionable ...
cies , " is astonished , that her acquaintance can spend whole nights in preying , like harpies , on the fortunes of their fellow creatures , while the grave , sober sinner , who passes her pale and anxious vigils , in this fashionable ...
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... whole work , not to mention its images , machinery , and other poetical beauties , is written in the very finest strain of morality . In this latter respect , it is evidently superior to the works of the ancients , the moral of which is ...
... whole work , not to mention its images , machinery , and other poetical beauties , is written in the very finest strain of morality . In this latter respect , it is evidently superior to the works of the ancients , the moral of which is ...
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... whole com- pany , who , with that complaisant deceit which good breeding too much authorises , affect open- ly to admire what they secretly resolve never to forgive . I have always been delighted with the story of the little girl's ...
... whole com- pany , who , with that complaisant deceit which good breeding too much authorises , affect open- ly to admire what they secretly resolve never to forgive . I have always been delighted with the story of the little girl's ...
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Abdiel acquaintance acquire admiration affect agreeable amiable amusement attain attention beauty become blessings character charm Christian connex contempt CORNELIA COUNTESS OF CARLISLE cultivated dangerous daugh dear girls delicacy delight desire dignity disposition divine Egyptian hieroglyphic elegance envy esteem ev'ry evil FABLE fair feel female finer feeling folly friendship genius give grace happiness heart heav'n honour human husband ideas idolatry indolence innocent kind knowledge ladies lative learning lence LETTER Lord Chesterfield mankind ment merit mind moral nation nature nerally ness never numbers nymph o'er oblique reflections pain passions perhaps person Philip of Macedon Phoenicia pleasure polite possess pow'r pride prudence quire racter reason refined religion render sense sensibility sentiments soul spirit superior sweet taste temper thing thou tion truth tural ture vanity vice virtue weakness wish woman women wretched Xenocrates young yourselves
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Page 63 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 183 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Page 52 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 123 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret...
Page 99 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Page 242 - which has the promise of this life, " as well as of that which is to come.
Page 50 - The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 12 - ... in order to free the state from such unserviceable citizens. He frequently had men racked before him while he sat at table, ironically pitying their misfortunes, and blaming their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow.
Page 51 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 183 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; 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.