The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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is misery to be disturbed ; all around is enchant- ment ! -The isle is full of noises , Sounds , and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt not . Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes ...
is misery to be disturbed ; all around is enchant- ment ! -The isle is full of noises , Sounds , and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt not . Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes ...
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... ment . " No life can be happy , but that which is spent in the prosecution of some purpose to which our powers are equal , and which we , therefore , prose- cute with success ; for this reason it is absurd to dread business , upon ...
... ment . " No life can be happy , but that which is spent in the prosecution of some purpose to which our powers are equal , and which we , therefore , prose- cute with success ; for this reason it is absurd to dread business , upon ...
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... ment which they were intended to supply ; he will , therefore , either doze away life in a kind of listless indolence , which he despairs to exalt into felicity , or he will imagine that the good he wants is to be obtained by an ...
... ment which they were intended to supply ; he will , therefore , either doze away life in a kind of listless indolence , which he despairs to exalt into felicity , or he will imagine that the good he wants is to be obtained by an ...
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... as many days , were circumstances which imagination immediately improved to aggravate his disappoint- ment ; over these he mused perpetually with inex- pressible anguish ; he related them to every friend , NO . 96 . 333 ADVENTURER . 35.
... as many days , were circumstances which imagination immediately improved to aggravate his disappoint- ment ; over these he mused perpetually with inex- pressible anguish ; he related them to every friend , NO . 96 . 333 ADVENTURER . 35.
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... ment , impossible to reasonable beings ? And is a sense of the Divine Bounty necessarily languid , in proportion as that bounty appears to be less doubt- ful and interrupted ? Every man , surely , would blush to admit these suppositions ...
... ment , impossible to reasonable beings ? And is a sense of the Divine Bounty necessarily languid , in proportion as that bounty appears to be less doubt- ful and interrupted ? Every man , surely , would blush to admit these suppositions ...
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