Philosophical Miscellanies on Various Subjects: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Author, and His Works, by Himself |
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... Love of Literature . He was then bufied in defend- ing the Cause of his Mafter , Augulus II , King of Poland , against Stanislaus , Com- petitor for that Throne . The Elections were then at a Crifis , and Writings rela- tive to them ...
... Love of Literature . He was then bufied in defend- ing the Cause of his Mafter , Augulus II , King of Poland , against Stanislaus , Com- petitor for that Throne . The Elections were then at a Crifis , and Writings rela- tive to them ...
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... Love , Jealoufy , leave little Reft to those who are fo unhappy as to be under their Tyranny or Dominion . Such is our Frailty , that there is scarce the Per- fon living , to whom fome Paffion or other has not caufed many bad Nights ...
... Love , Jealoufy , leave little Reft to those who are fo unhappy as to be under their Tyranny or Dominion . Such is our Frailty , that there is scarce the Per- fon living , to whom fome Paffion or other has not caufed many bad Nights ...
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... love , and Self - love is every Day ftriking its Root deeper in us . On our Progress in the Courfe of Life , we are the more apt to think ourselves above any Lef- fons : Then how would he be looked on who should fhew even a Fondness for ...
... love , and Self - love is every Day ftriking its Root deeper in us . On our Progress in the Courfe of Life , we are the more apt to think ourselves above any Lef- fons : Then how would he be looked on who should fhew even a Fondness for ...
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... love to contradict , and cannot bear Contradiction : And is any Thing more required to raise fuch Tem- pefts , and fometimes to fuch a Height , that the the Confequences prove very melancholy ? Here , again , Laws of Converfation . 87.
... love to contradict , and cannot bear Contradiction : And is any Thing more required to raise fuch Tem- pefts , and fometimes to fuch a Height , that the the Confequences prove very melancholy ? Here , again , Laws of Converfation . 87.
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... love with thee to walk , And liften to thy whisper'd Talk ; Which Innocence and Truth imparts , And melts the most obdurate Hearts . A thousand Shapes you wear with Eafe , And ftill in ev'ry Shape you please : Now , rapp'd in fome ...
... love with thee to walk , And liften to thy whisper'd Talk ; Which Innocence and Truth imparts , And melts the most obdurate Hearts . A thousand Shapes you wear with Eafe , And ftill in ev'ry Shape you please : Now , rapp'd in fome ...
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Page 175 - Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Page 104 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 147 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 111 - That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us than there are of sensible and material below us, is probable to me from hence, that in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps.
Page 47 - Macbeth does murder sleep — the innocent sleep — Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Page 111 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other. There are fishes that have wings, and are not strangers to the airy...
Page 109 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; "For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; "For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; "Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; "My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 120 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit...
Page 158 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love; Where Friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem enlivened by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence: for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
Page 37 - But safe repose, without an air of breath, Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to death. An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, Arising upwards from the rock below, The palace moats, and o'er the pebbles creeps, And with soft murmurs calls the coming Sleeps...