Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - 198 страница |
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... eyes are feast- ed with fanciful scenery , and their ears tickled with straws of wit , that their minds may be im- proved . There is , indeed , such a glare of arti- ficial beauty in the paintings of the various scenes , and the ...
... eyes are feast- ed with fanciful scenery , and their ears tickled with straws of wit , that their minds may be im- proved . There is , indeed , such a glare of arti- ficial beauty in the paintings of the various scenes , and the ...
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... eye on the following ex- clamation of the editor , which we copy word for word , and letter for letter : - " Oh ! for a barrel of Harrington's thunder : A number one , to rat- tle in the common council chamber , till the sa- pient ...
... eye on the following ex- clamation of the editor , which we copy word for word , and letter for letter : - " Oh ! for a barrel of Harrington's thunder : A number one , to rat- tle in the common council chamber , till the sa- pient ...
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... eyes ; " and who invites you , in the accents of divine love , to call upon him in the hour of calamity , and he will dry up your tears ? But you are speaking , Mr. Nimrod , of distress and suffering , which many now feel from the want ...
... eyes ; " and who invites you , in the accents of divine love , to call upon him in the hour of calamity , and he will dry up your tears ? But you are speaking , Mr. Nimrod , of distress and suffering , which many now feel from the want ...
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... , in which even some christian preachers veil the terror's of God's law from the eyes and the ears of fashionable sinners , shall be no more thought H of or remembered , the tremendous and over- whelming denunciation- THE CIRCUS . 79.
... , in which even some christian preachers veil the terror's of God's law from the eyes and the ears of fashionable sinners , shall be no more thought H of or remembered , the tremendous and over- whelming denunciation- THE CIRCUS . 79.
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... eye , and not the ear , is the organ of gratification , spectators may go in or out at pleasure , without the least breach of that decorum or good breeding , which must of course belong to the " good society " that is met with at such ...
... eye , and not the ear , is the organ of gratification , spectators may go in or out at pleasure , without the least breach of that decorum or good breeding , which must of course belong to the " good society " that is met with at such ...
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Страница 26 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is all Nature cries aloud through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.
Страница 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Страница 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Страница 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Страница 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Страница 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Страница 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Страница 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Страница 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
Страница 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.