The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 - English essays |
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... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled uniformity , pro- ceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled uniformity , pro- ceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
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... object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleas- ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and sur- feited with intemperance of application ...
... object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleas- ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and sur- feited with intemperance of application ...
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... object of your future joy . To the RAMBLER . ELPHINSTON . SIR , THOUGH YOU seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have employed much of your speculation on mournful subjects , you have not yet ...
... object of your future joy . To the RAMBLER . ELPHINSTON . SIR , THOUGH YOU seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have employed much of your speculation on mournful subjects , you have not yet ...
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... objects are fleeting , variable , and evanescent . We are not able to judge of the degree of conviction which operated at any particular time upon our own thoughts , but as it is recorded by some certain and definite effect . He that ...
... objects are fleeting , variable , and evanescent . We are not able to judge of the degree of conviction which operated at any particular time upon our own thoughts , but as it is recorded by some certain and definite effect . He that ...
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... objects of attention and topicks of conversation , are incessantly busy in procuring wives and husbands . They fill the ears of every single man and woman with some convenient match , and when they are informed of your age and fortune ...
... objects of attention and topicks of conversation , are incessantly busy in procuring wives and husbands . They fill the ears of every single man and woman with some convenient match , and when they are informed of your age and fortune ...
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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.