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Page 9068
For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swelled
with wind ; Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the
mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks ...
For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swelled
with wind ; Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the
mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks ...
Page 9078
Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason ' s comparing balance
rules the whole . Man but for that no action could attend , And but for this were
active to no end ; Fix ' d like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition ...
Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason ' s comparing balance
rules the whole . Man but for that no action could attend , And but for this were
active to no end ; Fix ' d like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition ...
Page 9079
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix ' d ; ' t is fix ' d as in a frost ;
Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ;
The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the
whole .
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix ' d ; ' t is fix ' d as in a frost ;
Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ;
The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the
whole .
Page 9080
... which should feed the whole , Soon flows to this in body and in soul ; Whatever
warms the heart or fills the head , As the mind opens and its functions spread ,
Imagination plies her dangerous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part .
... which should feed the whole , Soon flows to this in body and in soul ; Whatever
warms the heart or fills the head , As the mind opens and its functions spread ,
Imagination plies her dangerous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part .
Page 9081
The fiery soul abhorr ' d in Catiline , In Decius charms , in Curtius is divine : The
same ambition can destroy or save , And makes a patriot as it makes a knave .
This light and darkness in our chaos join ' d , What shall divide ? - the God within
...
The fiery soul abhorr ' d in Catiline , In Decius charms , in Curtius is divine : The
same ambition can destroy or save , And makes a patriot as it makes a knave .
This light and darkness in our chaos join ' d , What shall divide ? - the God within
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Popular passages
Page 9078 - Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; Each works its end, to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ill.
Page 9068 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 9069 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Page 9149 - Afar in the desert I love to ride. With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side...
Page 9071 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Page 9263 - Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction : If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie.
Page 9076 - A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear: Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near. Just in that instant, anxious Ariel .sought The close recesses of the Virgin's thought: As, on the nosegay in her breast reclined, He watched th...
Page 9070 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 9168 - I love (oh ! how I love) to ride On the fierce foaming bursting tide, When every mad wave drowns the moon, Or whistles aloft his tempest tune, And tells how goeth the world below, And why the south-west blasts do blow. I never was on the dull tame shore, But I loved the great Sea more and more...
Page 9075 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
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| Title | The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc. ... Volume 25 of The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc, Harry Thurston Peck |
| Author | Harry Thurston Peck |
| Publisher | American literary society, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2008 |
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