Beauties of British ProseBrook and Lancashire, 1805 - 360 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... scarce worth the keep- ing ? Is it that Nature , attentive to the preservation of mankind , increases our wishes to live , while she lessens our enjoyments ? and , as she robs the senses of every pleasure , equips imagination in the ...
... scarce worth the keep- ing ? Is it that Nature , attentive to the preservation of mankind , increases our wishes to live , while she lessens our enjoyments ? and , as she robs the senses of every pleasure , equips imagination in the ...
Pàgina 53
... scarce acquainted with the source of their comforts ! Motive , engaging motive , to that ever - active bene- ficence , which stays not for the importunity of the dis- tressed , but anticipates their suit , and prevents them with the ...
... scarce acquainted with the source of their comforts ! Motive , engaging motive , to that ever - active bene- ficence , which stays not for the importunity of the dis- tressed , but anticipates their suit , and prevents them with the ...
Pàgina 54
... scarce regret the absence of the rest . - The gilly - flower , like a real friend , attends you through all the vicissi- tudes and alterations of the season . While others make a transient visit only , this is rather an inhabitant ...
... scarce regret the absence of the rest . - The gilly - flower , like a real friend , attends you through all the vicissi- tudes and alterations of the season . While others make a transient visit only , this is rather an inhabitant ...
Pàgina 75
... scarce leaves any taste behind it ; but being high in a part resembles vinegar , which grates upon the taste , and one feels it while he is drinking . To please the town or country , the way is , to cry , wring , cringe into attitudes ...
... scarce leaves any taste behind it ; but being high in a part resembles vinegar , which grates upon the taste , and one feels it while he is drinking . To please the town or country , the way is , to cry , wring , cringe into attitudes ...
Pàgina 110
... scarce any poet of eminence , who has not left some testimony of his fondness for the flowers , the zephyrs , and the warblers of the spring . Nor has the most luxuriant imagination been able to describe the serenity and happiness of ...
... scarce any poet of eminence , who has not left some testimony of his fondness for the flowers , the zephyrs , and the warblers of the spring . Nor has the most luxuriant imagination been able to describe the serenity and happiness of ...
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 347 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Pàgina 345 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in .the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at everything that stood by them to save themselves.
Pàgina 346 - ... that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Pàgina 346 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Pàgina 343 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Pàgina 344 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Pàgina 343 - that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? '
Pàgina 346 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas ! 'said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Pàgina 17 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Pàgina 344 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other. What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...