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... give continual pain to those who surround him , and can walk with satisfaction in the gloom of his own presence ; he that can see submissive misery without relenting , and meet without emotion the eye that implores mercy , or demands ...
... give continual pain to those who surround him , and can walk with satisfaction in the gloom of his own presence ; he that can see submissive misery without relenting , and meet without emotion the eye that implores mercy , or demands ...
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... give present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself obscure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as ...
... give present pain , for the sake of obviating evil yet unfelt , or securing advantage in time to come . What is distant is in itself obscure , and , when we have no wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as ...
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... give them strength which they have not from nature , and almost every example of ingrati- tude and treachery proves , that by obeying them we may commit our happiness to those who are very unworthy of so great a trust . But it may ...
... give them strength which they have not from nature , and almost every example of ingrati- tude and treachery proves , that by obeying them we may commit our happiness to those who are very unworthy of so great a trust . But it may ...
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... give away to instantaneous motions of merri- ment . Among the principal of comic calamities , may be reckoned the ... gives 1 Horace , 1 Satires , vi . 5 . him confidence to speak without reserve ; who heaps one THE RAMBLER . 31 36 ...
... give away to instantaneous motions of merri- ment . Among the principal of comic calamities , may be reckoned the ... gives 1 Horace , 1 Satires , vi . 5 . him confidence to speak without reserve ; who heaps one THE RAMBLER . 31 36 ...
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... gives up his understanding to false appearances , and suffers himself to be enslaved by fear of evils to which only folly or vanity can expose him , or elated by advantages to which , as they are equally conferred upon the good and bad ...
... gives up his understanding to false appearances , and suffers himself to be enslaved by fear of evils to which only folly or vanity can expose him , or elated by advantages to which , as they are equally conferred upon the good and bad ...
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Page 75 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 101 - The March begins in Military State, And Nations on his Eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary Coast, And Winter barricades the Realms of Frost ; He comes, nor Want nor Cold his Course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Page 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Page 82 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas...
Page 67 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great...
Page 223 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Page 110 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 128 - I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
Page 178 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
Page 193 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in Religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the Greatest POWER is the BEST.