He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Cousins - Pągina 238per Lucy Bethia Walford - 1879 - 513 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Cowper - 1855 - 580 pągines
...is fatal here. With caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive. Call'd to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If... | |
| 1857 - 588 pągines
...things, and in respect both to mind and matter, the mysteries of nature remain inscrutable. * HABITS. — Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. — Cowper. DRESS. — Exceed not in the humour of rags and bravery, for these will soon wear out of... | |
| Thomas Johnson Corson - 1859 - 168 pągines
...gains a power over us that can be overcome only by the most determined and unremitting exertions. " Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive." Of all the vices of which men are -guilty, this is the least excusable. It destroys our own self-respect... | |
| John Baillie - 1859 - 324 pągines
...him to Milan ; and his "heart cleaved" to her with a guilty affection. " Habits," it has been said, "Are soon assumed; but, when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive." Augustine was "the slave of lust;" the "disease of his soul was kept up with vigour... | |
| William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pągines
...is fatal here. With cautious taste the sweet Circean cup: He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Called to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander... | |
| Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pągines
...gains a power over us that can be overcome only by the most determined and unremitting exertions. " Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, "t is being flayed alive." Of all the vices of which men are guilty, this is the least excusable. It... | |
| 1861 - 356 pągines
...but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! LONGFELLOW. [See also THE FALL — TEMPTATION.] HABIT. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off 'tis being flayed alive. COWPEE. All habits gather by unseen degrees; As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. DRYDEN. How... | |
| William Cowper - 1863 - 96 pągines
...is fatal here. With caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Called to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander... | |
| William Cowper - 1864 - 456 pągines
...caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assum'd ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Call'd to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander... | |
| S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pągines
...but of our inmost thoughts, of our modes of thinking and feeling, that — "Habits are soon acquired, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. " And many a man pays the penalty, in after years, of a youth spent in the indulgence of the appetites,... | |
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