The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 |
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... shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But though the speculatist may see and shew the folly of terrestrial ...
... shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But though the speculatist may see and shew the folly of terrestrial ...
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... shew them , that though they may refuse to grow wise , they must in- evitably grow old ; and that the proper solaces of age are not musick and compliments , but wisdom and de- votion ; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world ...
... shew them , that though they may refuse to grow wise , they must in- evitably grow old ; and that the proper solaces of age are not musick and compliments , but wisdom and de- votion ; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world ...
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... shew , that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thou- sand instances will every day prove , that the meanest may practise it with success . Riches cannot be within the reach of great num- bers , because to be rich is to ...
... shew , that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thou- sand instances will every day prove , that the meanest may practise it with success . Riches cannot be within the reach of great num- bers , because to be rich is to ...
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... shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life in extrinsick ornaments , which serve only for show , and are laid aside in the hours ...
... shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life in extrinsick ornaments , which serve only for show , and are laid aside in the hours ...
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... shew the miseries that attend the last stage of man , imprecates upon those who are so foolish as to wish for long life , the calamity of continuing to grow old from century to century . He thought that no adventitious or foreign pain ...
... shew the miseries that attend the last stage of man , imprecates upon those who are so foolish as to wish for long life , the calamity of continuing to grow old from century to century . He thought that no adventitious or foreign pain ...
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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.