The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 - English essays |
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... Knowledge . * 151. The Climactericks of the Mind 152. Criticism on epistolary Writings .. 153. The Treatment incurred by Loss of Fortune 154. The Inefficacy of Genius without Learning 155. The Usefulness of Advice - the Danger of Habits ...
... Knowledge . * 151. The Climactericks of the Mind 152. Criticism on epistolary Writings .. 153. The Treatment incurred by Loss of Fortune 154. The Inefficacy of Genius without Learning 155. The Usefulness of Advice - the Danger of Habits ...
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... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and perse- verance , than from violent efforts and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires which , if they are ...
... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and perse- verance , than from violent efforts and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires which , if they are ...
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... knowledge by short flights , be- tween each of which the mind may lie at rest . For every single act of progression a short time is suffi- cient ; and it is only necessary that , whenever that time is afforded , it be well employed ...
... knowledge by short flights , be- tween each of which the mind may lie at rest . For every single act of progression a short time is suffi- cient ; and it is only necessary that , whenever that time is afforded , it be well employed ...
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... knowledge of the world such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained he sufficiently discovers , by informing us , that the Praise of Folly , one of his ...
... knowledge of the world such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained he sufficiently discovers , by informing us , that the Praise of Folly , one of his ...
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... knowledge were suffered to molest us . After a few years , however , these delights became familiar , and I had leisure to look round me with more attention . I then found that my flatterers had very little power to relieve the langour ...
... knowledge were suffered to molest us . After a few years , however , these delights became familiar , and I had leisure to look round me with more attention . I then found that my flatterers had very little power to relieve the langour ...
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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.