The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... delight in virtue , And that which he delights in must be happy . Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley , on a lady elabo- rately dressed , loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the ...
... delight in virtue , And that which he delights in must be happy . Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley , on a lady elabo- rately dressed , loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the ...
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... delight , or con- vulsions of disgust . His emotions are too violent for many words ; his thoughts are always discovered by exclamations . Vile , odious , horrid , detestable , and , sweet , charming , delightful , astonishing , compose ...
... delight , or con- vulsions of disgust . His emotions are too violent for many words ; his thoughts are always discovered by exclamations . Vile , odious , horrid , detestable , and , sweet , charming , delightful , astonishing , compose ...
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... delights of Lon- don . The lady who is hastening to the scene of action flutters her wings , displays her prospects of felicity , tells how she grudges every moment of delay , and , in the presence of those whom she knows condemned to ...
... delights of Lon- don . The lady who is hastening to the scene of action flutters her wings , displays her prospects of felicity , tells how she grudges every moment of delay , and , in the presence of those whom she knows condemned to ...
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... delight is to find every thing wrong . Dick never enters a room but he shows that the door and the chimney are ill - placed . He never walks into the fields but he finds ground ploughed which is fitter for pasture . He is always an ...
... delight is to find every thing wrong . Dick never enters a room but he shows that the door and the chimney are ill - placed . He never walks into the fields but he finds ground ploughed which is fitter for pasture . He is always an ...
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... trifling away , in superfluous vexation , the few months which custom has appropriated to delight ; that matrimo- nial quarrels are not easily reconciled between those that have no children ; that wherever we settle he 38 THE IDLER.
... trifling away , in superfluous vexation , the few months which custom has appropriated to delight ; that matrimo- nial quarrels are not easily reconciled between those that have no children ; that wherever we settle he 38 THE IDLER.
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ABDALLA adesse ASPASIA bassa beauty Behold boast bosom breast CALI CARAZA charms crimes crowds death delight DEMETRIUS doom dread ev'ry eyes fair fame fatal fate fear foes folly gen'ral gen'rous Greece Greek guilt Hæc happy HASAN hear heart heav'n honour hope hour Idler IRENE Irene's Johnson joys justice kings labour LEONTIUS live MAHOMET maid mankind ment mihi millia mind MURZA musick MUSTAPHA nature never night nunc o'er once palace passion pater peace pleasure pow'r praise pride publick quæ quam Quid quod rage rapture reason SAMUEL JOHNSON SATIRE OF JUVENAL SATURDAY SCENE scorn semper shades shine sibi sighs Sir Joshua Reynolds slaves smile soul square miles Stella STRETHAM sultan sword tell terrours thee thine Thomas Warton thou thought tibi tion toil tongue truth Turkish tyrant virtue vitæ voice wealth wish woes