The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Volume 2G. & C. Carvill, 1826 |
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, Volume 2 Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia),Lucy Aikin Visualização integral - 1825 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquainted admiration Adonis advantage æra affection agreeable amongst appearance Arion Atalanta attention beauty better called character charms child Christianity circumstances Clio colouring common connexions dear degree devo devotion dress earth elegant exer fancy favour feelings finer feelings fond friends genius give Greece habits heart Heptarchy Hippomenes honour human idea imagination Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king knowledge lady language learned likewise lives LUCY AIKIN manner means Menelaus Mercury mince pie mind moral nature ness never nymph object obliged observed opinions pains passions perhaps Periander philosopher pity pleasing pleasure poor pray prayer prejudices public worship racter reason religion religious rich sect Semiramis sensible sentiment spirit taste tell tender thee thing thou thought tincture tion trees truth turn venerable virtue Wakefield wish woman Xenophon young youth
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Página 200 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Página 149 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 18 - Was it in order to raise a fortune that you consumed the sprightly hours of youth in study and retirement? Was it to be rich that you grew pale over the midnight lamp, and distilled the sweetness from the Greek and Roman spring ? You have then mistaken your path, and ill employed your industry.
Página 63 - This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian' : Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Página 39 - But to the gods permit the event of things. Our lives, discolored with our present woes, May still grow white, and smile with happier hours. So the pure limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines; Till, by degrees, the floating mirror shines, Reflects each flower that on the border grows, And a new heaven in its fair bosom shows.
Página 150 - Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Página 5 - ... of the trees, and all the sweet, but fading graces of inspiring autumn, open the mind to benevolence, and dispose it for contemplation, I was wandering in a beautiful and romantic country, till curiosity began to give way to weariness ; and I sat down on the fragment of a rock overgrown with moss; where the rustling of the falling leaves, the dashing of waters, and the hum of the...
Página 17 - Muses, and be content to feed your understanding with plain, household truths. In short, you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or polish your taste, or refine your sentiments ; but must keep on in one beaten track, without turning aside either to the right hand or to the left. "But I cannot submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it.
Página 97 - This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood. Education, in its largest sense, is a thing of great scope and extent. It includes the whole process by which a human being is formed to be what he is, in habits, principles, and cultivation of every kind.
Página 6 - ... but, as they proceeded, new hills were continually rising to their view, and the summit of the highest they could before discern seemed but the foot of another, till the mountain at length appeared to lose itself in the clouds. As I was gazing on these things with astonishment, my good genius suddenly appeared : The mountain before thee, said he, is the Hill of Science.