Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 pàgines |
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... heart remain inviolable , they cannot be altered .こ To such a Patron , I am proud of the permis- sion which you have granted me , of dedicating these Essays . I have the Honor to be , MY LORD , With the utmost respect , Your Lordship's ...
... heart remain inviolable , they cannot be altered .こ To such a Patron , I am proud of the permis- sion which you have granted me , of dedicating these Essays . I have the Honor to be , MY LORD , With the utmost respect , Your Lordship's ...
Pàgina 27
... heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations ...
... heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a secret , but the operations ...
Pàgina 33
... heart the surest tokens of eventual triumph ! If the common patience of human nature can wait in good humour for these pantomi- mical scenes , the allotment of human life will not afford the time . A year , perhaps two or more of ...
... heart the surest tokens of eventual triumph ! If the common patience of human nature can wait in good humour for these pantomi- mical scenes , the allotment of human life will not afford the time . A year , perhaps two or more of ...
Pàgina 46
... heart ; and for ' so desirable an end , let the means of attaining it , be assiduously cultivated . It was a wise and true observation of Plutarch's " That vessels which are compacted of divers parts , or glued together of divers pieces ...
... heart ; and for ' so desirable an end , let the means of attaining it , be assiduously cultivated . It was a wise and true observation of Plutarch's " That vessels which are compacted of divers parts , or glued together of divers pieces ...
Pàgina 48
... sentiment be cherished in the heart , irradiate the countenance , and be seen in the whole deportment of those , whose duty and happiness are so essentially connected with it . ESSAY III . SEDUCTION . SEDUCTION , that distressing word 48.
... sentiment be cherished in the heart , irradiate the countenance , and be seen in the whole deportment of those , whose duty and happiness are so essentially connected with it . ESSAY III . SEDUCTION . SEDUCTION , that distressing word 48.
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affront allowed ancient Athenian Athens avarice better blood body cation cause Celibacy character chastity Christian commanded committed conscience considered contempt Council of Trent courage crime death desire disease dismal divine drachms dreadful drinking dropsies drunk drunkenness duel duelling duty effects enemies Epicureans ESSAY evil excess exposed falsehood fear feel fleep fortune friends gibbets give gouts guilty habit happiness heart hence honour human injurious instances Jews justice justly King live Lord Lycurgus mankind manner marriage married matrimony mind misery Montesquieu moral murdered nature never oaths obliged observed occa occasions parents passion person Plato Plutarch Polygamy pride principle Puffendorf punishment reason revenge Romans sacred salutary says scurvy seduction SELF-MURDER sentiments sions slander sober society Solon soul spect spirit suicide tears tell temperance thing thou thought tion truth usually valour vice Vide virtue VITAL spark Wedlock wise woman women writer
Passatges populars
Pàgina 113 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pàgina 189 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Pàgina 92 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Pàgina 172 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pàgina 132 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pàgina 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Pàgina 92 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pàgina 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Pàgina 151 - HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words!