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87. oldal
It not onobliging the mean and the noble to ly spoils the natural beauty , but is
conuibute to the result by unsus- prejudicial ' to health . It is well pected
combination , In short by known that Lady Coventry , a celethis mode of writing ,
the pleasure ...
It not onobliging the mean and the noble to ly spoils the natural beauty , but is
conuibute to the result by unsus- prejudicial ' to health . It is well pected
combination , In short by known that Lady Coventry , a celethis mode of writing ,
the pleasure ...
275. oldal
Arm'd with gold and leaden - arrow , Hast thou seen where flow'rets blow , Thou
hast a quiver all of gold Her to grow , And dost hold , Beauty calls the queen of
Howers ; ' A torcb , wherewith the soul to harrow . When soft kiss'd by vernal
gales ...
Arm'd with gold and leaden - arrow , Hast thou seen where flow'rets blow , Thou
hast a quiver all of gold Her to grow , And dost hold , Beauty calls the queen of
Howers ; ' A torcb , wherewith the soul to harrow . When soft kiss'd by vernal
gales ...
419. oldal
What beauty , too , if none descry It ne'er has been my chance to find , Her love -
insinuating , eye ? A friend so fashion'd to my mind ; A rose in desert wild , I ween
, No longer breathe this stifted air , That blossoms and decays unseen . With me ...
What beauty , too , if none descry It ne'er has been my chance to find , Her love -
insinuating , eye ? A friend so fashion'd to my mind ; A rose in desert wild , I ween
, No longer breathe this stifted air , That blossoms and decays unseen . With me ...
58. oldal
EPIGRAN . he had so recently determined to reA lover is generally at a loss to
define nounce . the beauty by which his passion was sudienly and irresistibly
determined to a particular object ; but this could never happen , if it depended
upon ...
EPIGRAN . he had so recently determined to reA lover is generally at a loss to
define nounce . the beauty by which his passion was sudienly and irresistibly
determined to a particular object ; but this could never happen , if it depended
upon ...
249. oldal
Reply to an inquiry after a just standard of Female Beauty . ! Hail , dear
enchantress of the gen'rous Ask not of me th ' essential form soul ! That high - priz
'd beauty bears ; Offspring of virtue pure , and spotless Who shall describe the
secret ...
Reply to an inquiry after a just standard of Female Beauty . ! Hail , dear
enchantress of the gen'rous Ask not of me th ' essential form soul ! That high - priz
'd beauty bears ; Offspring of virtue pure , and spotless Who shall describe the
secret ...
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appear attention beauty better called cause character charms considered death delight effect Emerald EPIGRAM equally expected expression fair feel force fortune gave genius give hand happy head heart honour hope hour human interest Italy kind king lady language late learned less light lines live look Lord manner mark means ment merit mind moral nature never night o'er object observed once opinion ORIGINAL pass passion performance person play pleasure poet possessed present pride produced published readers reason received remarks respect scene seems seen sense sentiment smile society soon soul spirit sweet talents taste thee thing thou thought tion true truth turn virtue WANDERER whole wish write young
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276. oldal - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
276. oldal - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
276. oldal - I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip.
177. oldal - Christian religion, which might be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his resurrection by all the other apostles, he thought the conversion of St Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity to be a divine revelation.
30. oldal - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
224. oldal - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
237. oldal - ... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
235. oldal - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
200. oldal - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
210. oldal - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?