Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volume 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... future calamity ; to fay nothing of the evil paffions of pride , envy , and malevo- lence ; may poifon all the gifts of fortune , and make him fenfible , that human happiness and mifery depend upon the foul , and not upon the body ...
... future calamity ; to fay nothing of the evil paffions of pride , envy , and malevo- lence ; may poifon all the gifts of fortune , and make him fenfible , that human happiness and mifery depend upon the foul , and not upon the body ...
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... future awaken no fanguine hope : but former perceptions re- main in the mind , accompanied ( as the remem- brance of our early days never fails to be ) with ideas of delight , mellowed , like colours in a picture , by length of time ...
... future awaken no fanguine hope : but former perceptions re- main in the mind , accompanied ( as the remem- brance of our early days never fails to be ) with ideas of delight , mellowed , like colours in a picture , by length of time ...
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... future , but to what is present , or paft ; unless we have been anticipating fome future event ; in which cafe , our dreams may poffibly resemble our conjectures . Now if our conjectures were right , and if our dreams be like them , it ...
... future , but to what is present , or paft ; unless we have been anticipating fome future event ; in which cafe , our dreams may poffibly resemble our conjectures . Now if our conjectures were right , and if our dreams be like them , it ...
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... future evils would torment him before they came ; and future good , by being anticipated , would lofe every charm that furprife and novelty confer upon it . And he would fit down , motionless and ftu- pid , in expectation of evil ...
... future evils would torment him before they came ; and future good , by being anticipated , would lofe every charm that furprife and novelty confer upon it . And he would fit down , motionless and ftu- pid , in expectation of evil ...
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... future events by his prophets , he has generally delivered the prophecy in terms that could not be fully under- ftood , till after it was accomplished : for other- wife it must have interfered with the principles of human action , and ...
... future events by his prophets , he has generally delivered the prophecy in terms that could not be fully under- ftood , till after it was accomplished : for other- wife it must have interfered with the principles of human action , and ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
adjective adverbs Æneid affirmation affociated alfo alſo antient aorift appear beauty becauſe cafe called caufe Cicero confequently confidered defire denotes difcourfe diftinct diftinguished dreams effential elegant English expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fatire fecond fecondly feem feen fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fign fignify fimple firft firſt fleep fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpoken ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyllables Grammarians Greek himſelf human ideas imagination itſelf laft language Latin learned leaſt lefs meaning meaſure Memory mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary noun obferved occafion paffage paffions paffive pafs paft participle paſt perfon philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poffible pofition prefent prepofitions preterite profe pronoun purpoſe racter reafon refpect rife ſpeak tafte tenfes thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tive tongue trochees underſtand uſe verb verfe Virgil whofe words writing
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Página 334 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 188 - The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Página 392 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 382 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms...
Página 270 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
Página 270 - In the midst of these our innocent endearments, she snatched a paper of verses out of my hand, and ran away with them. I was following her, when on a...
Página 354 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their hortatives...
Página 213 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Página 271 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
Página 420 - It is one of the great beauties of poetry to make hard things intelligible, and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers...