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... nature had not committed the anomaly of uniting to such extraordinary talents an imperfect moral sense , -nor from feelings dead to the admiration of virtue . No man had ever a kinder heart for sympathy , or a more open hand for the ...
... nature had not committed the anomaly of uniting to such extraordinary talents an imperfect moral sense , -nor from feelings dead to the admiration of virtue . No man had ever a kinder heart for sympathy , or a more open hand for the ...
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... nature which disdained restraint , even when restraint was most wholesome . When at school , the tasks in which he excelled , were those only which he under took voluntarily ; and his situation as a young man of rank , with strong ...
... nature which disdained restraint , even when restraint was most wholesome . When at school , the tasks in which he excelled , were those only which he under took voluntarily ; and his situation as a young man of rank , with strong ...
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... nature , that it can merely claim the merit of being appropriate to the opponent at whom it is level- led . Pray ... natures , without thrusting your ears ( if there be any left you ) into the heat of this perilous action . - Avaunt TO ...
... nature , that it can merely claim the merit of being appropriate to the opponent at whom it is level- led . Pray ... natures , without thrusting your ears ( if there be any left you ) into the heat of this perilous action . - Avaunt TO ...
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... nature . A fever attacked me as I sat beneath the damp dome of Drury , and drove me , malgré moi , to bed ; where I lay during a week , till three hours before the play was exhibited . In addition to the unavoidable injury arising from ...
... nature . A fever attacked me as I sat beneath the damp dome of Drury , and drove me , malgré moi , to bed ; where I lay during a week , till three hours before the play was exhibited . In addition to the unavoidable injury arising from ...
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... nature suffer a depression beneath the unwieldy imaginings of Mr. Kemble . He seldom deigns to accompany the goddess in her ordinary walks when she decently paces the regular path , with a sober step , and a straight person ; but he ...
... nature suffer a depression beneath the unwieldy imaginings of Mr. Kemble . He seldom deigns to accompany the goddess in her ordinary walks when she decently paces the regular path , with a sober step , and a straight person ; but he ...
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Page 399 - And nothing can we call our own but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 399 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 399 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 399 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 399 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 303 - Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughen'd by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heaven, though little noticed here.
Page 330 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 399 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 399 - Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 399 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...