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... , and in the eye Of public note , they reach their perfect size . Such London is , by taste and wealth proclaimed The fairest capital of all the world , By riot and incontinence the worst . There , touched BOOK 1 . 31 THE SOFA .
... , and in the eye Of public note , they reach their perfect size . Such London is , by taste and wealth proclaimed The fairest capital of all the world , By riot and incontinence the worst . There , touched BOOK 1 . 31 THE SOFA .
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... taste Of what is excellent in man , they thirst . With fuch a zeal to be what they approve , That no reftraints can circumfcribe them more Than they thenfelves by choice , for wisdom's fake ;. Nor can example hurt them : what they fee ...
... taste Of what is excellent in man , they thirst . With fuch a zeal to be what they approve , That no reftraints can circumfcribe them more Than they thenfelves by choice , for wisdom's fake ;. Nor can example hurt them : what they fee ...
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... taste thy sweets ; Though many boaft thy favours , and affect To understand and choose thee for their own . But foolish man foregoes his proper blifs , E'en as his first progenitor , and quits , Though BOOK III . 91 THE GARDEN .
... taste thy sweets ; Though many boaft thy favours , and affect To understand and choose thee for their own . But foolish man foregoes his proper blifs , E'en as his first progenitor , and quits , Though BOOK III . 91 THE GARDEN .
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... taste for fields and groves , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own fake its filence and its shade . 92 BOOK III ...
... taste for fields and groves , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own fake its filence and its shade . 92 BOOK III ...
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... taste , inviting him abroad— Can he want occupation who has these ? Will he be idle who has much to enjoy ? Me therefore ftudious of laborious ease , Not flothful , happy to deceive the time , Not wafte it , and aware that human life Is ...
... taste , inviting him abroad— Can he want occupation who has these ? Will he be idle who has much to enjoy ? Me therefore ftudious of laborious ease , Not flothful , happy to deceive the time , Not wafte it , and aware that human life Is ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 236 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 121 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Página 121 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles.
Página 159 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 89 - In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Página 48 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will...
Página 224 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 330 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Página 189 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.