Essay on ManClarendon Press, 1879 - 122 sider |
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... means by which the harmony of the system is pro- cured . The ends of Providence are answered even by our errors and imperfections . God designs happiness to be equal , but realises it through general laws . Virtue only constitutes a ...
... means by which the harmony of the system is pro- cured . The ends of Providence are answered even by our errors and imperfections . God designs happiness to be equal , but realises it through general laws . Virtue only constitutes a ...
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... mean thought expressed in noble terms is better liked than the noblest thought expressed in mean terms . For everybody cannot judge of the force and justness of a thought , but scarce any but perceives the meanness of words ...
... mean thought expressed in noble terms is better liked than the noblest thought expressed in mean terms . For everybody cannot judge of the force and justness of a thought , but scarce any but perceives the meanness of words ...
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... means of lawless rhythms , has led us back to the barbarous versification of the seventeenth century , and much is written as poetry , which can only claim to be so called because it is not prose . 6 The best preservative from such ...
... means of lawless rhythms , has led us back to the barbarous versification of the seventeenth century , and much is written as poetry , which can only claim to be so called because it is not prose . 6 The best preservative from such ...
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... means be fair , List under Reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
... means be fair , List under Reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
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... Mean - while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supply'd , And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ...
... Mean - while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supply'd , And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ...
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Side 27 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Side 66 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Side 30 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Side 37 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Side 65 - I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Side 36 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 100 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Side 77 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Side 32 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Side 86 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.