Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1770 - 452 strán (strany) |
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Strana 38
... mankind ; A rule of life we then fhould plainly fee , For to pursue that end muft virtue be . Then what is that ? not want of power , or fame , Or worlds unnumber'd to applaud his name , But a defire his bleffings to diffuse , And fear ...
... mankind ; A rule of life we then fhould plainly fee , For to pursue that end muft virtue be . Then what is that ? not want of power , or fame , Or worlds unnumber'd to applaud his name , But a defire his bleffings to diffuse , And fear ...
Strana 39
... Mankind excepted , lord of all befide , į But only flave to folly , vice , and pride ; ' Tis he that's deaf to this command alone , Delights in others woe , and courts his own ; Racks and destroys with tort'ring fteel and flame , For ...
... Mankind excepted , lord of all befide , į But only flave to folly , vice , and pride ; ' Tis he that's deaf to this command alone , Delights in others woe , and courts his own ; Racks and destroys with tort'ring fteel and flame , For ...
Strana 40
... mankind . Thus is the public fafety Virtue's cause , And happiness the end of all her laws ; For fuch by nature is the human frame , Our duty and our int'reft are the fame . But hold , cries out fome Puritan divine , Whofe well - ftuff ...
... mankind . Thus is the public fafety Virtue's cause , And happiness the end of all her laws ; For fuch by nature is the human frame , Our duty and our int'reft are the fame . But hold , cries out fome Puritan divine , Whofe well - ftuff ...
Strana 41
... mankind , rodao 10 This globe our sportive nursery affign'd , snad vod Where for a while his fond paternal care Feafts us with ev'ry joy our ftate can bear : and it A's Au e Each fenfe , touch , tafte , and fmell difpenfe delight ...
... mankind , rodao 10 This globe our sportive nursery affign'd , snad vod Where for a while his fond paternal care Feafts us with ev'ry joy our ftate can bear : and it A's Au e Each fenfe , touch , tafte , and fmell difpenfe delight ...
Strana 42
... mankind but make these truths their guide , And force the helm from prejudice and pride , Were once these maxims fix'd , that God's our friend , Virtue our good , and happiness our end , How foon must reafon o'er the world prevail , And ...
... mankind but make these truths their guide , And force the helm from prejudice and pride , Were once these maxims fix'd , that God's our friend , Virtue our good , and happiness our end , How foon must reafon o'er the world prevail , And ...
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Strana 266 - Ignorance, or the want of knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infusing that insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other. It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of Providence ; of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
Strana 20 - Quick bufy hands, and bridling heads declare, The fond impatience of the ftarting fair. And fee, the fprightly dance is now begun ! Now here, now there the giddy maze they run, Now with flow fteps they pace the circling ring, Now all confus'd, too fwift for fight they fpring : So, in a wheel with rapid fury tofs'd, Tho undiftinguim'd fpokes are in the motion loft.
Strana 52 - He digs no longer in th' exhaufted mine, But feeks preferment, as the laft refort, Cringes each morn at levees, bows at court, And, from the hand he hates, implores fupport...
Strana 30 - fquires: Attorneys, for a barley-ftraw, Whole ages hamper folks in law; And every neighbour's in a flame About their rates, or tythes, or game : Some quarrel for their hares and pigeons, And fome for difference in religions...
Strana 279 - Evil ever so great, it could not be remedied but by one much greater, which is by living for ever ; by which means our...
Strana 44 - ... us here, To guide our views to a fublimer fphere, In more exalted joys to fix our tafte, And wean us from delights that cannot laft. Our prefent good the eafy tafk is made, To earn fuperior blifs, when this...
Strana 40 - Hence youth good-humour, frugal craft old-age, Warm politicians term It party-rage, True churchmen zeal right orthodox ; and hence Fools think it gravity, and wits pretence ; To conftancy alone fond lovers join it, And maids unafk'd to chaftity confine it. But have we then no law befides our will ? No juft criterion fix'd to good and ill ? As well at noon we may...
Strana 218 - ... and a great room is added behind to dine in, which, was it ever inhabited, would make all the little ones appear ftill lefs : but having never yet been...
Strana 34 - O'er all the rolling orbs on high, Vifit new worlds, and for a minute This old one fcorn...
Strana 23 - Ah, thoughtlefs fair ! the tempting draught refufe, When thus fore-warn'd by my experienc'd Mufe ; Let the fad confequence your thoughts employ, Nor hazard future pains, for prefent joy, Deftruftion lurks within the pois'nous dofe, A fatal fever, or a pimpled nofe. Thus thro...