Select Works, Band 2J. Exshaw, 1772 |
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... beauty , ufe , or duration , than an artificial plant , raised by the fire of a chemist , is comparable to the true and natural one which he first burnt , that out of the ashes of it he might produce an imperfect fimilitude of his own ...
... beauty , ufe , or duration , than an artificial plant , raised by the fire of a chemist , is comparable to the true and natural one which he first burnt , that out of the ashes of it he might produce an imperfect fimilitude of his own ...
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... beauty did tranfcend ; His beams of locks fell part difhevell'd down , Part upwards curl'd , and form'd a nat'ral crown , Such as the British monarchs us'd to wear ; If gold might be compar'd with angels hair . D 4 His His coat and ...
... beauty did tranfcend ; His beams of locks fell part difhevell'd down , Part upwards curl'd , and form'd a nat'ral crown , Such as the British monarchs us'd to wear ; If gold might be compar'd with angels hair . D 4 His His coat and ...
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... beauty of the contrivance , we are to reflect , that the tutelar genius of England is here introduced , not merely to unravel the intricacy of the scene , but to form a ftriking contraft , to the foul fiend , who had ufurped his place ...
... beauty of the contrivance , we are to reflect , that the tutelar genius of England is here introduced , not merely to unravel the intricacy of the scene , but to form a ftriking contraft , to the foul fiend , who had ufurped his place ...
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... beauty of great virtues ; his intimate converfation was with the worst of men , and yet he feemed to be an ad- mirer and lover of the beft ; he was furnished with all the nets of luft and luxury , and yet wanted not the arms of labour ...
... beauty of great virtues ; his intimate converfation was with the worst of men , and yet he feemed to be an ad- mirer and lover of the beft ; he was furnished with all the nets of luft and luxury , and yet wanted not the arms of labour ...
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... beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and interior inconveniences . A great for- tune ( fays Seneca ) is a great fervitude ; but ma- ny ny are of that opinion which Brutus imputes ( I OF MR . A ...
... beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and interior inconveniences . A great for- tune ( fays Seneca ) is a great fervitude ; but ma- ny ny are of that opinion which Brutus imputes ( I OF MR . A ...
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Seite 197 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Seite 131 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature ; And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.
Seite 195 - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 194 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity.
Seite 171 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 10 - ... estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal as was the little inheritance of his father, and to be as noble and liberal in the spending of them; and lastly (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory,) to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad ; to be buried among kings...
Seite 195 - ... and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion if I could find any of the same temper. I was then too...
Seite 2 - ... much magnificence, much vain-glory ; briefly a great show ; and yet, after all this, but an ill sight. At last (for it seemed long to me, and, like his short reign too, very tedious) the whole scene...
Seite 96 - If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time : we expose our life to a quotidian ague of frigid impertinences, which would make a wise man tremble to think of.
Seite 99 - To him, alas, to him, I fear, The face of death will terrible appear ; Who, in his life flattering his senseless pride, By being known to all the world beside, Does not himself, when he is dying, know, Nor what he is, nor whither he's to go.