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... true picture of human nature in general . The spirits most covetous of liberty bow gracefully to restraint , so it be but self- imposed . " Nuns fret not their narrow convent room , And hermits are contented with their cells ; And ...
... true picture of human nature in general . The spirits most covetous of liberty bow gracefully to restraint , so it be but self- imposed . " Nuns fret not their narrow convent room , And hermits are contented with their cells ; And ...
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... True , it ends with a quatrain and a couplet , and anxious strife , ' is somewhat weak ; but having regard to the novelty of the idea , the grandeur of the occasion , the magnificence of the imagery , the beauty of the language , the ...
... True , it ends with a quatrain and a couplet , and anxious strife , ' is somewhat weak ; but having regard to the novelty of the idea , the grandeur of the occasion , the magnificence of the imagery , the beauty of the language , the ...
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... True King . 72. Reflection on the History of Man . 73. Reflection on the History of Man - continued . * 74 . The Liberty of the Subject . * 75 . The Liberty of the Press . * 76 . Criticism . * 77 . Patronage . 78. A Prophecy . * 79 ...
... True King . 72. Reflection on the History of Man . 73. Reflection on the History of Man - continued . * 74 . The Liberty of the Subject . * 75 . The Liberty of the Press . * 76 . Criticism . * 77 . Patronage . 78. A Prophecy . * 79 ...
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... true aim of Learning , who first sought No couch luxurious for the mind's repose ; No stately tower for pomp and idle shows ; No terrace whence a fair view might be caught ; No vantage - ground for battle to be fought ; No shop wherein ...
... true aim of Learning , who first sought No couch luxurious for the mind's repose ; No stately tower for pomp and idle shows ; No terrace whence a fair view might be caught ; No vantage - ground for battle to be fought ; No shop wherein ...
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... True that the labourers of the heathen Schools Toiled on in darkness , simple babes and fools , By Nature's feeble light and Reason's line ; For not for them , as us , the Prophet - band Was station'd in dark crypt and deep recess , To ...
... True that the labourers of the heathen Schools Toiled on in darkness , simple babes and fools , By Nature's feeble light and Reason's line ; For not for them , as us , the Prophet - band Was station'd in dark crypt and deep recess , To ...
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Page 211 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Page 53 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 185 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 152 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Page 183 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Page 76 - The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb : Her tides have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Page 38 - And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other : for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased : and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Page 69 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.