Essays on Various Subjects: By the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the WeekJohn and Francis Rivington, 1772 |
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abſolute agreeable almoſt amuſe Amusement Anſwer Aſſiſtance becauſe Behaviour beſt bleſſed Buſineſs Cafe cheerful confider Confideration Conſequence dear Defire Delight Diſpoſition Duty eaſy ESSAY ESSAY Eſtate Eſteem expreſs faid ſhe Fairy falſe fame Fancy feem firſt fome foon Friend Friendſhip fuch fure give Happineſs happy Heart human Humour idle Imagination Induſtry Inſtances Intereſt itſelf juſt Kind laſt leaſt leſs look loſe Love melancholy ment Mind moſt muſt Nature neceſſary neral neſs never Number obſerve Occaſions Offian ourſelves Pain paſs paſt Perſons pleaſing Pleaſure poſſible preſent Purpoſe racter raiſe Reaſon Reſpect reſt riſes ſaid ſame ſay ſcarce Scene ſee ſeem ſelves Senſe ſenſible ſhall ſhine ſhort ſhould ſhow ſmall ſmiling ſome ſomething ſometimes ſpeaking ſtand ſtill ſtrong ſuch ſupport ſuppoſe ſure ſweet Temper Thee themſelves theſe Thing thoſe Thou Thoughts tion trifling Uſe Virtue whoſe wiſh World
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Page 92 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul ; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 75 - Reading thy verse ; Who heeds, said I, If here or there his glances flew ? O free for ever be his eye, Whose heart to me is always true.
Page 172 - Let us have done ever fo little, yet if we have done our beft, •we have the Merit of having been employed, and this moral Merit is the only Thing of Importance in human Life. To complain of the Infignificancy of our Employments, is but another Name for repining at that Providence, which has appointed, to each of us, our Station : Let us but fill that well, to the utmoft of our Power, and whatever it be, we fhall find it to have Duties and Advantages enough.
Page 13 - ... means it can procure, in any degree, the satisfaction or good opinion of any part of mankind : thus paying an obliging deference to their judgment, so far as it is not inconsistent with the higher obligations of virtue and religion. This must be accompanied with an elegance of taste, and a delicacy observant of the least trifles which tend to please or...
Page 68 - It is true, we are poor; but who knows what good fortune may throw in our way ? Youth is the time for mirth and pleasure ; and I do not care how hardly I fare, provided I can get a silken lining to my hat, and be the lady of the May next year.
Page 167 - Whilst thou, triumphantly surviving all, Shalt glad expatiate in eternal day. Sickens the mind with longings vainly great, To trace mysterious wisdom's secret ways, While chain'd and bound in this ignoble state, Humbly it breathes sincere, imperfect praise ? Or glows the beating heart with sacred fires, And longs to mingle in the worlds of love? Or, foolish trembler, feeds its fond desires...
Page 156 - ... raised very high, or themselves, perhaps, gone so far off before they took the fancy of returning, that they could not find their way back without a guide ; and in the whole place there was but one guide to be met with, and she of so forbidding an aspect, and so disagreeable a conversation, as made her a very undesirable companion. She severely reproved their folly, and obliged them to throw away the bargains on which they had most set their heart, and then led them back to the fair, by a rough...
Page 71 - This happy object of our difF'rent care, Her let me follow ; her let me attend, A servant ; she may scorn the name of friend. What she demands, incessant...
Page 135 - Whilst we were hurried, with a rapid motion, over vast oceans, boundless plains, and barren deserts, she told me that her name was Imagination; that she was carrying me to Parnassus, where she herself lived. I had scarce time to thank her before we arrived at the top of a very high mountain, covered with very thick woods. Here we alighted ; and my guide taking me by the hand, we passed through several beautiful groves of myrtle, bays, and laurel, separated from one another by little green alleys,...