Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquired affection affliction amusement Anna Boleyn appear astronomy attained avoid beauty becomes behold belong Brutus called Caprarola Cardinal Wolsey cheerfulness concerning consider Copernicus Copula cultivation death delight doubt duty employed encrease endeavour endure enjoyment equally errors ESSAY evil excellence existence eyes faculties fear feel fellow-creatures folly frequently Galileo gratification grave grey hairs grief habit happiness heart honours hope hour human ideas imagination imperfect indulgence labour lady Jane Seymour lady Mary Talbot lence less lives MASSILLON means ment mind Mirabeau mode nature ness never object observed opinions ourselves pains passion perhaps perly person PINDEMONTE pleasures portion portunities possessed pride pursuits quires racter reason recollect render rience rules scarcely shew sions speak spect spirit spring talents temper temptation theme thing thoughts tible tion trifler trifling truth ture vanity vice virtue words worldly young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Página 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Página 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Página 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Página 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.