The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by sir N.H. Nicolas].1837 |
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... wealth , even when it has been notoriously acquired by the basest means , -is not this a fit object of it ? To see how ancient , illustrious , and virtuous families are trod in the dust by new , obtrusive , and reckless ambition , is ...
... wealth , even when it has been notoriously acquired by the basest means , -is not this a fit object of it ? To see how ancient , illustrious , and virtuous families are trod in the dust by new , obtrusive , and reckless ambition , is ...
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... poor , From lust of wealth , and dread of death secure ; They tempt no deserts , and no griefs they find ; Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind . COLLINS . AMBITION is a vulture vile , That feedeth on the 35.
... poor , From lust of wealth , and dread of death secure ; They tempt no deserts , and no griefs they find ; Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind . COLLINS . AMBITION is a vulture vile , That feedeth on the 35.
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... wealth or fame . Avails it whether bare or shod , These feet the path of duty trod , If from the bowers of joy they fled To soothe the poor man's friendless bed ; If grandeur's guilty tribe they spurn'd , And home to virtue's lap return ...
... wealth or fame . Avails it whether bare or shod , These feet the path of duty trod , If from the bowers of joy they fled To soothe the poor man's friendless bed ; If grandeur's guilty tribe they spurn'd , And home to virtue's lap return ...
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... wealth that shines Within their gentle tide , Mary ! So , veil'd beneath a simple guise , Thy radiant genius shone , And that which charm'd all other eyes , Seem'd worthless in thy own , Mary ! MOORE . WEALTH is a relative thing . The ...
... wealth that shines Within their gentle tide , Mary ! So , veil'd beneath a simple guise , Thy radiant genius shone , And that which charm'd all other eyes , Seem'd worthless in thy own , Mary ! MOORE . WEALTH is a relative thing . The ...
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... wealth to me : Those friendships in my boyhood twined , And kept till now unchangingly ; And that dear home , that saving ark , Where love's true light at last I've found , Cheering within , when all grows dark , And comfortless and ...
... wealth to me : Those friendships in my boyhood twined , And kept till now unchangingly ; And that dear home , that saving ark , Where love's true light at last I've found , Cheering within , when all grows dark , And comfortless and ...
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aspiring tower beam beauty BEN JONSON bids blessed blest bosom brave breast breath bright brow BYRON calm CHAUCER COLERIDGE conscience COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON CYRIL TOURNEUR dark dear death delight doth dreams DRYDEN earth eternal evil fair fame fate fear feel FELTHAM flowers folly fortune Fortune's friendship genius gentle gift give gloom glory grief happiness hast hath heart Heaven honour hope hope and fear hour human JOANNA BAILLIE JOHN MITFORD life's light live man's MARY BRUNTON mighty mind nature ne'er never noble o'er once pain passion peace pleasure pride pure racter reason religion round Sabbath bell shine sighs SIR THOMAS WYATT sleep smile soothe sorrow soul spirit storm stream sweet tears Tell thee thine things thou thought throne tion true truth virtue WALTER SCOTT wealth wings wisdom wise WORDSWORTH youth
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.