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... Thought influenced by Passion , 166 168 217 Mental Desolation , 221 Prologue spoken by George Barrington at opening the Theatre in Botany Bay , 224 Napoleon and Murat , 19 226 Ahasuerus , the Wandering Jew , a Fragment , 228 Account of ...
... Thought influenced by Passion , 166 168 217 Mental Desolation , 221 Prologue spoken by George Barrington at opening the Theatre in Botany Bay , 224 Napoleon and Murat , 19 226 Ahasuerus , the Wandering Jew , a Fragment , 228 Account of ...
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... thought , or by splendid and powerful diction- such as may arrest attention upon a first perusal , and may be read a second time without any unequivocal symptom of weariness . It has also been my study to exclude mediocre , as well as ...
... thought , or by splendid and powerful diction- such as may arrest attention upon a first perusal , and may be read a second time without any unequivocal symptom of weariness . It has also been my study to exclude mediocre , as well as ...
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... thought the account , whichever it had been , possible , and repeated it accordingly ; passing it , as it had been taken , in the small change of conversation , for no more than what it was worth . In this manner I might have spoken of ...
... thought the account , whichever it had been , possible , and repeated it accordingly ; passing it , as it had been taken , in the small change of conversation , for no more than what it was worth . In this manner I might have spoken of ...
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... thought him- self slandered , by having that recorded of him which he has so often recorded of himself . The many opprobrious appellations which Lord Byron has bestowed upon me , I leave as I find them , with the praises which he has ...
... thought him- self slandered , by having that recorded of him which he has so often recorded of himself . The many opprobrious appellations which Lord Byron has bestowed upon me , I leave as I find them , with the praises which he has ...
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... thought , upon those who are perpetually assailing me . But abhorring , as I do , the personalities which disgrace our current literature , and averse from controversy as I am , both by principle and inclination , I make no profession ...
... thought , upon those who are perpetually assailing me . But abhorring , as I do , the personalities which disgrace our current literature , and averse from controversy as I am , both by principle and inclination , I make no profession ...
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Page 399 - And nothing can we call our own but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 399 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 399 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 399 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 399 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 303 - Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughen'd by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heaven, though little noticed here.
Page 330 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 399 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 399 - Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 399 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...