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... PERHAPS the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end . There was a time when we were not : this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall ...
... PERHAPS the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end . There was a time when we were not : this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall ...
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... Perhaps religious considerations reconcile the mind to this change sooner than any others , by representing the spirit as fled to another sphere , and leaving the body behind it . But in reflecting on death generally , we mix up the ...
... Perhaps religious considerations reconcile the mind to this change sooner than any others , by representing the spirit as fled to another sphere , and leaving the body behind it . But in reflecting on death generally , we mix up the ...
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... perhaps also better , as well as more heroical , to strike at some daring or darling object , and if we fail in that , to take the consequences man- fully , than to renew the lease of a tedious , spiritless , charmless existence ...
... perhaps also better , as well as more heroical , to strike at some daring or darling object , and if we fail in that , to take the consequences man- fully , than to renew the lease of a tedious , spiritless , charmless existence ...
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... perhaps such bold but finished draughts may be compared to fresco paintings , which imply a life of study and great previous preparation , but of which the execution is momentary and irrevocable . will add a single remark on a point ...
... perhaps such bold but finished draughts may be compared to fresco paintings , which imply a life of study and great previous preparation , but of which the execution is momentary and irrevocable . will add a single remark on a point ...
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... perhaps a little dead - colouring added here and there . In this state they were thrown aside , as if he grew tired of his occupation the instant it gave a promise of turning to account , and his whole object in the pursuit of art was ...
... perhaps a little dead - colouring added here and there . In this state they were thrown aside , as if he grew tired of his occupation the instant it gave a promise of turning to account , and his whole object in the pursuit of art was ...
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Page 43 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 33 - I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 44 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 14 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Page 141 - With what eagerness I used to look forward to the next number, and open the prints ! Ah ! never again shall I feel the enthusiastic delight with which I gazed at the figures, and anticipated the story and adventures of Major Bath and Commodore Trunnion, of Trim and my Uncle Toby, of Don Quixote and Sancho and Dapple, of Gil Bias and Dame Lorenza Sephora, of Laura and the fair Lucretia, whose lips open and shut like buds of roses. To what nameless ideas did they give rise, — with what airy delights...
Page 236 - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
Page 272 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!
Page 225 - T' entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile : Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore, Taught mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil, To victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine, Rear'd the rude heap, or in thy hallow'd ground Repose the kings of Brutus...
Page 44 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 139 - ... contents of the work brought back to my mind in all their vividness, but the old associations of the faces and persons of those I then knew, as they were in their life-time — the place where I sat to read the volume, the day when I got it, the feeling of the air, the fields, the sky — return, and all my early impressions with them. This is better to me — those places, those times, those persons, and those feelings that come across me as I retrace the story and devour the page, are to me...