The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 - English essays |
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... discovered in my first cries such tokens of future virtue and understanding , that they declared themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happiness and the increase of their estate . The abilities of my father ...
... discovered in my first cries such tokens of future virtue and understanding , that they declared themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happiness and the increase of their estate . The abilities of my father ...
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... discovery of the primary movements of the heart , and the extirpation of lusts and appetites deeply rooted and widely spread , may be allowed to demand some secession from sport and noise , and business and folly . Some suspension of ...
... discovery of the primary movements of the heart , and the extirpation of lusts and appetites deeply rooted and widely spread , may be allowed to demand some secession from sport and noise , and business and folly . Some suspension of ...
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... discovered some ir- regularity in her conduct , or some depravity in her mind ; not because I was charmed by another , but because I was offended by herself . I was very early tired of that succession of amuse- ments by which the ...
... discovered some ir- regularity in her conduct , or some depravity in her mind ; not because I was charmed by another , but because I was offended by herself . I was very early tired of that succession of amuse- ments by which the ...
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... discovered ; and multi- tudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime , till they deserve death , because , if they had been sooner prosecuted , they would have suffered death before they deserved it . This scheme of ...
... discovered ; and multi- tudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime , till they deserve death , because , if they had been sooner prosecuted , they would have suffered death before they deserved it . This scheme of ...
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... discovery , and you by its promulgation . It is universally known that the faculties of the mind are invigorated or ... discovered , by a long series of observations , that invention and elocution suffer great impediments from dense and ...
... discovery , and you by its promulgation . It is universally known that the faculties of the mind are invigorated or ... discovered , by a long series of observations , that invention and elocution suffer great impediments from dense and ...
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Page 187 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 184 - Dcpress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives.
Page 177 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me, Where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp, Unwholesome draught.
Page 203 - Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own.
Page 186 - In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 207 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 188 - POLITICIANS have long observed, that the greatest events may be often traced back to slender causes. Petty competition or casual friendship, the prudence of a slave, or the garrulity of a woman, have hindered or promoted the most important schemes, and hastened or retarded the revolutions of empire.
Page 205 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Page 184 - I not been thus exiled from light; As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 62 - That a garret will make every man a wit, I am very far from supposing; I know there are some who would continue blockheads even on the summit of the Andes, or on the peak of Teneriffe.