The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining Treatise on Mistakes Respecting Pleasure and Happiness, and on the Objects which are Opposed to the Pleasures of Life, Usually Denominated Its MiseriesH. Fisher, 1822 - 764 páginas |
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Página 33
... evil things away . They who but slightly view'd had said Pride was her intimate , for tall She was - and , in her lightest tread , Mov'd like a princess ; but of all That seeming loftiness , the key Was an inborn nobility ; The spirit's ...
... evil things away . They who but slightly view'd had said Pride was her intimate , for tall She was - and , in her lightest tread , Mov'd like a princess ; but of all That seeming loftiness , the key Was an inborn nobility ; The spirit's ...
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... evil , to which men are ad- dicted by natural instinct , for the general good , and to the prejudice of the particular ; just as water ascends upwards , contrary to its own nature , for the eschew- ing of vacuity . Woman is an imperfect ...
... evil , to which men are ad- dicted by natural instinct , for the general good , and to the prejudice of the particular ; just as water ascends upwards , contrary to its own nature , for the eschew- ing of vacuity . Woman is an imperfect ...
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... evil rather than a good . CHAP . V. THE PLEASURES of love - continued . What whispers must the beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes dispense their charms , Impertinence around her swarms . Did not the ...
... evil rather than a good . CHAP . V. THE PLEASURES of love - continued . What whispers must the beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes dispense their charms , Impertinence around her swarms . Did not the ...
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... evil husband , she must dwell upon her sorrow ; and she is more under it , because her tormentor hath a warrant of prerogative , and the woman may complain to God , as subjects do of tyrant princes , but otherwise she has no appeal in ...
... evil husband , she must dwell upon her sorrow ; and she is more under it , because her tormentor hath a warrant of prerogative , and the woman may complain to God , as subjects do of tyrant princes , but otherwise she has no appeal in ...
Página 134
... evil ensues from not teaching women , in early youth , to listen to their consciences ; from not fixing in their minds a strong sense of responsibi- lity . The idea of sin , as annexed to the female cha- racter , is generally confined ...
... evil ensues from not teaching women , in early youth , to listen to their consciences ; from not fixing in their minds a strong sense of responsibi- lity . The idea of sin , as annexed to the female cha- racter , is generally confined ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration affection afford amusement animal appear attention beauty behold benevolence blessing bliss body bosom breast charms cheerful Cicero Clodio colours creatures daring song death Deity delight divine duties earth enjoy enjoyment eternal ev'ry evil faculties fair fancy feel Flavilla flowers give glory grace happiness hath heart heaven honour hope human imagination innocent Jeremy Taylor Julius Scaliger kind knowledge labour lence light live lived single mankind manner marriage ment mind misery moral nature ness never night o'er objects observes pain passions peace perfect person pleasure Plutarch possess pow'r praise pursuit racter rapture reason religion render rich scene sense sentiments shew sions sleep smile SOAME JENYNS soft sorrow soul spirit sublime sweet taste temper thee things thou thought tion virtue virtuous ward air whole wisdom wise woman young youth
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Página 355 - While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What...
Página 238 - God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 283 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 242 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 212 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 102 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds ; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train...
Página 219 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Página 102 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 685 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Página 551 - Ah! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.