Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Sentiments; Or, The Voyage of LifeCadell, 1812 - 340 Seiten |
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... youth ? Say , would you now triumphantly transcend The dire opposing ills besetting Life , The latent rocks and fluctuating tides , The gusts of Fortune , and the wrecks of Time ? Fix not on earth's unstable premises The basis of your ...
... youth ? Say , would you now triumphantly transcend The dire opposing ills besetting Life , The latent rocks and fluctuating tides , The gusts of Fortune , and the wrecks of Time ? Fix not on earth's unstable premises The basis of your ...
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... Youth , a Jewel - Its Value . - Education and Religion , Pearls of great Price . - The Folly of neglect- ing the early Improvement of the Mind , represented under different Allusions ; and the Advantages resulting from the opposite ...
... Youth , a Jewel - Its Value . - Education and Religion , Pearls of great Price . - The Folly of neglect- ing the early Improvement of the Mind , represented under different Allusions ; and the Advantages resulting from the opposite ...
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... needful spur To application : this awakens hope , Dicta est musica , quod dracones in ejus Gorgone ad ictus citharæ tinnitu resonabant . PLIN . NAT . HIST . v . 102 . Youth a golden Season . And 148 THE VOYAGE OF LIFE .
... needful spur To application : this awakens hope , Dicta est musica , quod dracones in ejus Gorgone ad ictus citharæ tinnitu resonabant . PLIN . NAT . HIST . v . 102 . Youth a golden Season . And 148 THE VOYAGE OF LIFE .
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... youth , the joy of riper age , The sweetest solace of declining years . Youth holds a treasure of divinest worth- A casket , with a pearl deriv'd from Heaven . The little sanctuary oft detains * The smiling cherub joy : while fleeting ...
... youth , the joy of riper age , The sweetest solace of declining years . Youth holds a treasure of divinest worth- A casket , with a pearl deriv'd from Heaven . The little sanctuary oft detains * The smiling cherub joy : while fleeting ...
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... Youth is the golden prime , in which to sow The seeds of Education , which supplant The unbless'd produce of our native soil , Us rendering more susceptible of good . As the laborious hind prepares his field By careful culture , ere he ...
... Youth is the golden prime , in which to sow The seeds of Education , which supplant The unbless'd produce of our native soil , Us rendering more susceptible of good . As the laborious hind prepares his field By careful culture , ere he ...
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Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Sentiments Or the Voyage of Life David Lloyd Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
æther Amid Atheist BACCHANALIANS Bards bark bear beneath bliss boast breast Cambrian cause celestial Cherubic bands crowns dare darkness decree deem'd deep delight destiny disclos'd divine e'er earth eternal fair fame fatal fate feel fix'd flame fond Forbear form'd future gain gale God's golden grace groves gulph hand happy harmony harp heart Heaven Hence honours hope human ills immortal Irreligion joys Justice King lapsed powers libertines Life's Voyage list of Deists LLANBISTER lyre LYSANDER Mercy minstrelsey Muse Muse's Nature's nymph o'er OVID PALEMON patriot peace poison'd Port Prince proud prove Psal rage realms reason reveal'd rocks sacred scenes secure seems seen shew shine shore sing sink skies smiles sober song soft solemn soon soul storm stream sublime sweet tale tear thou throne triple harp true truth virtue voice wave wisdom yonder youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 295 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Seite 13 - He whose heart is indelicate or hard, he who has no admiration of what is truly noble or praise-worthy, nor the proper sympathetic sense of what is soft and tender, must have a very imperfect relish of the highest beauties of eloquence and poetry.
Seite 248 - Yet there is a certain race of men, that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving ignorance and envy the first notice of a prey.
Seite 230 - With ewe and lambe, with goats and kids they play, In greatest toyles, to rub out wearie day ; And when to house and home good fellowes drawe, The lads can laugh at turning of a strawe.
Seite 326 - Then to the watchful shepherds it was told, Who heard the angelic herald's voice, 'Behold, I bring good tidings of a Saviour's birth To you and all the nations upon earth : This day hath God fulfilled...
Seite 249 - As rhetoric has been sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words, and phrases, and tropes, so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms, by means of which persons are taught to cavil and censure in a learned manner. But this is the criticism of pedants only. True criticism is a liberal and humane art. It is the offspring of good sense and refined taste.
Seite 327 - Saviour of the world was born; Rise to adore the mystery of love, Which hosts of angels chanted from above: With them the joyful tidings first begun Of God incarnate and the Virgin's Son.
Seite 85 - Establishment, and the means of exciting among its members a spirit of devotion, to which the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union, in the diocese of St David's, adjudged a premium of £50 in December 1820 ; by Rev.
Seite 230 - Here balmy air, and springs as ether clear, Fresh downs, and limpid rills, and daisied meads, Delight the eye, reanimate the heart, And on the florid cheek emboss the rose 'Mid sweetest dimples and unfeigned smiles." WHO has not heard of the far-famed Pont-y-Monach, its magnificent waterfalls, its curious double bridge, spanning a yawning chasm of profound depth, and the absurd legend attached to its origin ? Its scenic attractions, however, have long been a
Seite 92 - ... arbitrary, and dependent on custom — Conscience and remorse are nothing but the foresight of those physical penalties to which crimes expose us — The man who is above the law, can commit, without remorse, the dishonest act that may serve his purpose...