A manual of essays, selected from various authors, Volum 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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Pàgina 12
... wise constitutions of lawgivers , and all the doctrines of sages , had perished , like a dream related , if letters had not preserved them . No hero , who prefers virtue to pleasure , can be an enemy to the muses . 12 ESSAY 52 .
... wise constitutions of lawgivers , and all the doctrines of sages , had perished , like a dream related , if letters had not preserved them . No hero , who prefers virtue to pleasure , can be an enemy to the muses . 12 ESSAY 52 .
Pàgina 13
Manual. pleasure , can be an enemy to the muses . Let Sardanapalus , and the silken sons of luxury , who have wasted life in inglorious ease , despise the records of action , which bear no honorable testi- mony to their lives . But true ...
Manual. pleasure , can be an enemy to the muses . Let Sardanapalus , and the silken sons of luxury , who have wasted life in inglorious ease , despise the records of action , which bear no honorable testi- mony to their lives . But true ...
Pàgina 16
... or propagate irre- ligion ; but exert all their powers in the service of virtue , and celebrate the noble choice of those , who like Hercules , prefer her to pleasure . ESSAY 53 . ON THE CHARACTER OF POETS . ( 16 ESSAY 52 .
... or propagate irre- ligion ; but exert all their powers in the service of virtue , and celebrate the noble choice of those , who like Hercules , prefer her to pleasure . ESSAY 53 . ON THE CHARACTER OF POETS . ( 16 ESSAY 52 .
Pàgina 34
... the se- ductions of the world , he would often , as the child sat playing on his lap , mix an anxious tear with the smiles of paternal pleasure . When Euphemion was past his childhood , the prudent Democritus 34 ESSAY 56 .
... the se- ductions of the world , he would often , as the child sat playing on his lap , mix an anxious tear with the smiles of paternal pleasure . When Euphemion was past his childhood , the prudent Democritus 34 ESSAY 56 .
Pàgina 35
... pleasure the passage to virtue , as virtue was the only passage to real pleasure ; for knowing from his own past conduct , the propensity of youth to voluptuousness , he made that the enforcement of his precepts , which generally is the ...
... pleasure the passage to virtue , as virtue was the only passage to real pleasure ; for knowing from his own past conduct , the propensity of youth to voluptuousness , he made that the enforcement of his precepts , which generally is the ...
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Pàgina 224 - Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour,...
Pàgina 131 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Pàgina 103 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pàgina 104 - I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Pàgina 104 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Pàgina 55 - Words, indeed, like glaring colours, are the first beauties that arise and strike the sight; but, if the draught...
Pàgina 189 - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Pàgina 190 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.
Pàgina 71 - Sickness is a sort of early old age ; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Pàgina 223 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently...