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... tell posterity the wond'rous tale . When actions , unadorn'd , are faint and weak , Cities and Countries must be taught to speak ; Gods may descend in factions from the skies , And Rivers from their oozy beds arise ; Fiction may deck ...
... tell posterity the wond'rous tale . When actions , unadorn'd , are faint and weak , Cities and Countries must be taught to speak ; Gods may descend in factions from the skies , And Rivers from their oozy beds arise ; Fiction may deck ...
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... tell the joys of those that lye Beneath the constant influence of her eye ! Whilst in diffusive show'rs her bounties fall Like heaven's indulgence , and descend on all , Secure the happy , succour the distrest , 455 460 Make ev'ry ...
... tell the joys of those that lye Beneath the constant influence of her eye ! Whilst in diffusive show'rs her bounties fall Like heaven's indulgence , and descend on all , Secure the happy , succour the distrest , 455 460 Make ev'ry ...
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... tell posterity the wond'rous tale . When actions , unadorn'd , are faint and weak , Cities and Countries must be taught to speak ; Gods may descend in factions from the skies , And Rivers from their oozy beds arise ; Fiction may deck ...
... tell posterity the wond'rous tale . When actions , unadorn'd , are faint and weak , Cities and Countries must be taught to speak ; Gods may descend in factions from the skies , And Rivers from their oozy beds arise ; Fiction may deck ...
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... tell me if the winds and seas befriend them . My soul is quite weigh'd down with care , and asks The soft refreshment of a moment's sleep . Portius . My thoughts are more at ease , my heart revives . SCENE III . PORTIUS and MARCIA ...
... tell me if the winds and seas befriend them . My soul is quite weigh'd down with care , and asks The soft refreshment of a moment's sleep . Portius . My thoughts are more at ease , my heart revives . SCENE III . PORTIUS and MARCIA ...
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... tell me sincerely , What are your thoughts of the King of Sweden ? ( for though his wife and children were starving , I found his chief concern at present was for this great Monarch . ) I told him , that I looked upon him as one of the ...
... tell me sincerely , What are your thoughts of the King of Sweden ? ( for though his wife and children were starving , I found his chief concern at present was for this great Monarch . ) I told him , that I looked upon him as one of the ...
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Side 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Side 153 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Side 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Side 11 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 47 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Side 319 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Side 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Side 12 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 47 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Side 155 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.