The Analyst: A Collection of Miscellaneous PapersWiley & Putnam, 1840 - 174 pàgines |
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The Analyst: A Collection of Miscellaneous Papers (Classic Reprint) William Alfred Jones Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
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Pàgina 154 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light. Thy torch doth show the way.
Pàgina 156 - The brightness of that day We sullied by our foul offence : Wherefore that robe we cast away, Having a new at his expense, Whose drops of blood paid the full price, That was required to make us gay, And fit for Paradise. Thou art a day of mirth : And where the...
Pàgina 100 - To read a good comedy is to keep the best company in the world, where the best things are said, and the most amusing happen. The wittiest remarks are...
Pàgina 76 - The honest heart, whose thoughts are clear From fraud, disguise, and guile, Need neither fortune's frowning fear, Nor court the harlot's smile. The greatness that would make us grave Is but an empty thing; What more than, mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Hall. Enter LUCINDA and HODGE. Lucin. Hist, hist, Hodge ! Hodge. Who calls ? here am I. Lucin. Well, have you been? Hodge. Been ! ay I ha...
Pàgina 102 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own features, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pàgina 69 - I do not bite my nails about the difficulties I meet with in my reading; after a charge or two, I give them over. Should I insist upon them, I should both lose myself and time; for I have...
Pàgina 156 - Christ hath took in this piece of ground, And made a garden there for those Who want herbs for their wound. The rest of our creation Our great Redeemer did remove With the same shake which, at his passion, Did the earth and all things with it move. As Samson bore the doors away, Christ's hands, though nail'd, wrought our salvation, And did unhinge that day.
Pàgina 156 - O let me take thee at the bound, Leaping with thee from seven to seven, Till that we both, being tossed from earth, Fly hand in hand to heaven ! AVARICE.
Pàgina 43 - In spinning out suits to the length of three lives, Such suits which the clients do wear out in slavery, Whilst pleader makes conscience a cloak for his knavery, May boast of his subtlety in the present tense, But non est inventus a hundred years hence.
Pàgina 68 - ... knowledge of things, but I will not buy it so dear as it will cost. My design is to pass over easily, and not laboriously, the remainder of my life. There is nothing that I will cudgel my brains about; no, not knowledge, of what price soever. I seek, in the reading of books, only to please my self by an irreproachable diversion: or if I study, it is for no other science, than what treats of the knowledge of my self, and instructs me how to die, and live well.