Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 sider |
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Side 18
... delightful gardens , green meadows , fruitful fields , and can scarce cast his eye on a single spot of his possessions that is not covered with some beautiful plant or flower . THE THEORY OF LAUGHTER . " Laugh if you are. 18 Wisdom , Wit ...
... delightful gardens , green meadows , fruitful fields , and can scarce cast his eye on a single spot of his possessions that is not covered with some beautiful plant or flower . THE THEORY OF LAUGHTER . " Laugh if you are. 18 Wisdom , Wit ...
Side 25
... delights in mimicry , that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and avarice ; or , on the contrary , virtue and wisdom , pain and poverty . Thirdly , He is wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will ...
... delights in mimicry , that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and avarice ; or , on the contrary , virtue and wisdom , pain and poverty . Thirdly , He is wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will ...
Side 34
... delights in mimicry , that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and avarice ; or , on the contrary , virtue and wisdom , pain and poverty . Thirdly , He is wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will ...
... delights in mimicry , that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and avarice ; or , on the contrary , virtue and wisdom , pain and poverty . Thirdly , He is wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will ...
Side 39
... delightful a scene . I wished for the wings of an eagle , that I might fly away to those happy seats : but the genius told me there was no passage to them , except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the ...
... delightful a scene . I wished for the wings of an eagle , that I might fly away to those happy seats : but the genius told me there was no passage to them , except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the ...
Side 41
... delight of their own times , and the won- der of posterity . There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural geniuses , that is infinitely more beautiful than all turn and polishing of what the French call a ...
... delight of their own times , and the won- der of posterity . There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural geniuses , that is infinitely more beautiful than all turn and polishing of what the French call a ...
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Side 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Side 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Side 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Side 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Side 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Side 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Side 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Side 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Side 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Side 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.