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... cause must surely be . But disappointments , pains , and every woe Devoted wretches feel , The universal plagues of life below , Are mysteries still ' neath Fate's unbroken seal . And what is Death ? -is still the cause unfound ? That ...
... cause must surely be . But disappointments , pains , and every woe Devoted wretches feel , The universal plagues of life below , Are mysteries still ' neath Fate's unbroken seal . And what is Death ? -is still the cause unfound ? That ...
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... cause of opposition to what , they con- ceive , unjust authority . Such a character is open and guileless ; but unhappily , the very circumstance that makes it sincere renders it also , if misturned , desperate and hardened . SEE ! how ...
... cause of opposition to what , they con- ceive , unjust authority . Such a character is open and guileless ; but unhappily , the very circumstance that makes it sincere renders it also , if misturned , desperate and hardened . SEE ! how ...
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... cause , subject to the defect of indecision . They see too well how much can be said on both sides of a question . There is a sort of philosophical doubt , arising from enlargement of the understanding , quite different from the ...
... cause , subject to the defect of indecision . They see too well how much can be said on both sides of a question . There is a sort of philosophical doubt , arising from enlargement of the understanding , quite different from the ...
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... causes not to be divulged in vain , To its just point - the service of mankind . COWPER . WHEN thy last breath , ere Nature sunk to rest , Thy meek submission to thy God expressed ; When thy last look , ere thought and feeling fled , A ...
... causes not to be divulged in vain , To its just point - the service of mankind . COWPER . WHEN thy last breath , ere Nature sunk to rest , Thy meek submission to thy God expressed ; When thy last look , ere thought and feeling fled , A ...
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... cause it spoke , Yet gentle concord never broke ; That tuneful tongue shall plead for thee When Death unveils Eternity . Say did these fingers delve the mine , Or with the envied ruby shine , To hew the rock , or wear the gem , Can ...
... cause it spoke , Yet gentle concord never broke ; That tuneful tongue shall plead for thee When Death unveils Eternity . Say did these fingers delve the mine , Or with the envied ruby shine , To hew the rock , or wear the gem , Can ...
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Page 87 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 148 - Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Page 65 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.
Page 227 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 161 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 53 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 161 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 23 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man. His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer and his will to serve.
Page 74 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
Page 177 - Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.