The Cabinet: A Series of Essays Moral and Literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1835 |
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ancient appeared beautiful better BIBLIOMANIA CABINET called Calton Hill court Crambe dear Dick dinner Doctor door doubt Dryden Edinburgh engaged evil fancy favour fear feelings footman fortune gentleman give ground hand happy hath helpmate honour hope Horace Walpole horses hour Hudibras human improvement Keeper labour lady late lence length live look manner marriage matter means Megrim ment merit mind Miss Mixed Wit moral morning nature neral never night numbers objects observation occasion Parliament of Scotland parties passed passion perfect persons pleasure poem poet poetry poor Pope present pretty proper qualities readers replied resemblance riety Romantic Love San Marino seemed servants sion soon specta suffering sure taste things thou thought tion town turn Vincentio VIRG Virgil Voltaire whole wife word young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 329 - Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 327 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 406 - The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own.
Seite 259 - Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before? Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Seite 320 - ... wisdom is a fox, who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out. It is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best.
Seite 414 - With the well-imitated fly to hook The eager trout, and with the slender line And yielding rod solicit to the shore The struggling panting prey : while vernal clouds And tepid gales obscur'd the ruffled pool, And from the deeps call'd forth the wanton swarms.
Seite 406 - Thus then to man the voice of nature spake — " Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 41 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Seite 322 - Thus when a poet tells us, the bosom of his mistress is as white as snow, there is no wit in the comparison ; but when he adds, with a sigh, that it is as cold too, it then grows into wit.
Seite 320 - Wisdom is a hen whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.