The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 |
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... received it , at the bed of a dying friend . To enter this school of wisdom is not the peculiar privilege of geome- tricians ; the most sublime and important precepts require no uncommon opportunities , nor laborious preparations ; they ...
... received it , at the bed of a dying friend . To enter this school of wisdom is not the peculiar privilege of geome- tricians ; the most sublime and important precepts require no uncommon opportunities , nor laborious preparations ; they ...
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... received ; but they soon found how little he was now affected by compliments , and how vainly they attempted , by flattery , to exhilarate the languor of weakness , and relieve the solicitude of approaching death . Who- ever would know ...
... received ; but they soon found how little he was now affected by compliments , and how vainly they attempted , by flattery , to exhilarate the languor of weakness , and relieve the solicitude of approaching death . Who- ever would know ...
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... received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it de- served value ; it had little more prevalence over his mind than a bubble that was now broken , a ...
... received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it de- served value ; it had little more prevalence over his mind than a bubble that was now broken , a ...
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... received with a boundless profusion of compliments , and attended home by a very fine gentleman . Next day she was with less difficulty prevailed on to play at Mrs. Grave- ly's , and came home gay and lively ; for the distinc- tions ...
... received with a boundless profusion of compliments , and attended home by a very fine gentleman . Next day she was with less difficulty prevailed on to play at Mrs. Grave- ly's , and came home gay and lively ; for the distinc- tions ...
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... received , with an observation , that " this girl will presently be a woman . " I was , after the usual stay , sent to school again , and overheard my mother say , as I was a - going , Well , now I shall re- " " cover . " " ( In six ...
... received , with an observation , that " this girl will presently be a woman . " I was , after the usual stay , sent to school again , and overheard my mother say , as I was a - going , Well , now I shall re- " " cover . " " ( In six ...
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acquaintance amusements ance appearance attention beauty Catiline censure common considered contempt conversation corruption critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire diligence DRYDEN duty endeavour envy equally Eumenes excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear flatter folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba genius give gratifications gulate happiness heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined innu inquiry Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind ments Milton mind misery nature necessary neglect neral ness never numbers nursling observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts publick racter RAMBLER reason regard riches SATURDAY scarcely seldom shew sider sometimes soon sophism sound suffer syllables tenderness thing thought thousand tion TRUTH TUESDAY tural vanity verse Virgil virtue vowels wisdom wish writers
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Страница 210 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Страница 218 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Страница 143 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Страница 173 - Ordain'd by thee, and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast...
Страница 174 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake. And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Страница 195 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Страница 66 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Страница 263 - is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually changing our Scenes: we first leave childhood behind us, then youth, then the years of ripened manhood, then the better and more pleasing part of old age.
Страница 39 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Страница 182 - ... that harmony that adds force to reason, and gives grace to sublimity; that shackles attention, and governs passions.