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... hour of death , that we are to be judged at the tribunal of God . An elevated genius employed in little things appears like the sun in his evening declination` ; he remits his splendour , but retains his mag- nitude ; and pleases more ...
... hour of death , that we are to be judged at the tribunal of God . An elevated genius employed in little things appears like the sun in his evening declination` ; he remits his splendour , but retains his mag- nitude ; and pleases more ...
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... hours so lingering ? Who are so often de- voured with spleen , and obliged to fly to some expedient which can help them to get rid of themselves ' ? Whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or ...
... hours so lingering ? Who are so often de- voured with spleen , and obliged to fly to some expedient which can help them to get rid of themselves ' ? Whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or ...
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... hours ! You're vastly considerate , văstly kind . infinitely obliged to you . I'm They offer us their protection . Yes -such protection as vultures give to lambs - covering and devouring them . They tell us to be moderate ; but they ...
... hours ! You're vastly considerate , văstly kind . infinitely obliged to you . I'm They offer us their protection . Yes -such protection as vultures give to lambs - covering and devouring them . They tell us to be moderate ; but they ...
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... hours of life` . 7. A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , ad- ventures boldly , takes all patiently` , defends resolutely , and continues a friend unchangeably ' . 8. Should the greater part of people sit ...
... hours of life` . 7. A true friend unbosoms freely , advises justly , assists readily , ad- ventures boldly , takes all patiently` , defends resolutely , and continues a friend unchangeably ' . 8. Should the greater part of people sit ...
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... hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise ; but others weak . But grant that those can conquer ; these can cheat · ' Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great . Who wickedly is wise , or madly brave , Is but the more a fool , the ...
... hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise ; but others weak . But grant that those can conquer ; these can cheat · ' Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great . Who wickedly is wise , or madly brave , Is but the more a fool , the ...
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Page 460 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 71 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 215 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 501 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 387 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 153 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 174 - Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 490 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 144 - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 459 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.