Moral essays, satires, &cJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take fome Virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ...
... court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take fome Virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ...
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... court's propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ought to blame ...
... court's propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ought to blame ...
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... Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest rate , Born where heaven's influence fcarce can penetrate ; In life's low vale , the foil the virtues like , They please as beauties , here as wonders ftrike . Tho ' the fame fun with all ...
... Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest rate , Born where heaven's influence fcarce can penetrate ; In life's low vale , the foil the virtues like , They please as beauties , here as wonders ftrike . Tho ' the fame fun with all ...
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... ! " " And France reveng'd of ANNE's and EDWARD'S ' Twas no Court badge , great Scrivener , fir'd thy brain , Nor lordly Luxury , nor City Gain : No , twas thy righteous end , afham'd to fee 88 MORAL ESSAYS . III . 17 .
... ! " " And France reveng'd of ANNE's and EDWARD'S ' Twas no Court badge , great Scrivener , fir'd thy brain , Nor lordly Luxury , nor City Gain : No , twas thy righteous end , afham'd to fee 88 MORAL ESSAYS . III . 17 .
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... court with nettles , moats with creffes ftor'd , With foups unbought and fallads blefs'd his board ? If Cotta liv'd on pulfe , it was no more Than Bramins , Saints , and Sages did before ; To cram the Rich was prodigal expence , And who ...
... court with nettles , moats with creffes ftor'd , With foups unbought and fallads blefs'd his board ? If Cotta liv'd on pulfe , it was no more Than Bramins , Saints , and Sages did before ; To cram the Rich was prodigal expence , And who ...
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Page 12 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 16 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 5 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 47 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 52 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 5 - Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 73 - But an inferior not dependant ? worse. Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live; But die, and she'll adore you — Then the bust And temple rise — then fall again to dust.
Page 89 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 7 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 224 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!