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... Night Thoughts - Uncertainty of human Happiness — Universality of human Misery ( from Night I. ) 49 Apology for the Seriousness of the Subject ( from Night II . ) . 57 • Madness of Men in Pursuit of Amusements ( from the same ) ...
... Night Thoughts - Uncertainty of human Happiness — Universality of human Misery ( from Night I. ) 49 Apology for the Seriousness of the Subject ( from Night II . ) . 57 • Madness of Men in Pursuit of Amusements ( from the same ) ...
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... Night IV . ) • • The Danger to Virtue of Infection from the World ( from Night V. ) • · Page 64 65 Insufficiency of Genius without Virtue ( from Night VI . ) 66 Description of the Man whose Thoughts are not of this World ( from Night ...
... Night IV . ) • • The Danger to Virtue of Infection from the World ( from Night V. ) • · Page 64 65 Insufficiency of Genius without Virtue ( from Night VI . ) 66 Description of the Man whose Thoughts are not of this World ( from Night ...
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... Night , a sort of manifesto of the impulses , for they could not be called principles , by which he professed his conduct to be influenced . The leading maxims of this epistle are , that prudence and hypocrisy in these times are the ...
... Night , a sort of manifesto of the impulses , for they could not be called principles , by which he professed his conduct to be influenced . The leading maxims of this epistle are , that prudence and hypocrisy in these times are the ...
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... night into day ! By his connexion with Wilkes he added political to personal causes of animosity , and did not diminishi the number of unfavourable eyes that were turned upon his private character . He had certainly , with all his ...
... night into day ! By his connexion with Wilkes he added political to personal causes of animosity , and did not diminishi the number of unfavourable eyes that were turned upon his private character . He had certainly , with all his ...
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... of spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ; With that malignant envy , which turns pale , And sickens , even if a friend prevail , 1 Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns 10 CHARLES CHURCHILD .
... of spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ; With that malignant envy , which turns pale , And sickens , even if a friend prevail , 1 Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns 10 CHARLES CHURCHILD .
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Page 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Page 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Page 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Page 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Page 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...