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... curiosity justified 84. A young lady's impatience of control 85. The mischiefs of total idleness page 64 71 - 77 84 86. The danger of succeeding a great author : An introduction to a criticism on Milton's versifi- eation 90 87. The ...
... curiosity justified 84. A young lady's impatience of control 85. The mischiefs of total idleness page 64 71 - 77 84 86. The danger of succeeding a great author : An introduction to a criticism on Milton's versifi- eation 90 87. The ...
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... curiosity , and engage our attention . In the dusk of the morning we watch the rising of the sun , and see the day diversify the clouds , and open new prospects in its gradual advance . After a few hours , we see the shades lengthen ...
... curiosity , and engage our attention . In the dusk of the morning we watch the rising of the sun , and see the day diversify the clouds , and open new prospects in its gradual advance . After a few hours , we see the shades lengthen ...
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... curiosity , than to relieve distress ; and how much he desired that his followers should rather ex- cel in goodness than in knowledge . His precepts tend immediately to the rectification of the moral principles , and the direction of ...
... curiosity , than to relieve distress ; and how much he desired that his followers should rather ex- cel in goodness than in knowledge . His precepts tend immediately to the rectification of the moral principles , and the direction of ...
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... curiosity , and an unshaken perseve- rance in the acquisition of the productions of art and nature . • It was observed , from my entrance into the world , that I had something uncommon in my disposition , and that there appeared in me ...
... curiosity , and an unshaken perseve- rance in the acquisition of the productions of art and nature . • It was observed , from my entrance into the world , that I had something uncommon in my disposition , and that there appeared in me ...
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... curiosity after $ natural history , and increase your fortune by benefitis ing mankind . I heard him , Mr. Rambler , with pity , and as there was no prospect of elevating cas minds formed to grovel , suffered him to please himself with ...
... curiosity after $ natural history , and increase your fortune by benefitis ing mankind . I heard him , Mr. Rambler , with pity , and as there was no prospect of elevating cas minds formed to grovel , suffered him to please himself with ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover domestick DRYDEN elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear February 19 felicity festool flatter folly fortune frequently Gabba gayety genius gratifications happiness heart honour hope hopes and fears hour human idleness imagination inclination innu inquiry JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind medicated gloves ment Milton mind miscarriages nature necessary neglected negligence neral ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion ourselves OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets praise pride publick racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach SATURDAY scarcely seldom sometimes soon sophisms sound stancy suffer surely syllables terrour thing thou thought tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue writers
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Page 443 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 145 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 93 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 119 - Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
Page 439 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 120 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 104 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Page 120 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Page 119 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 118 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.