Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death: In which the Question is Considered, Whether it is Easier to Live Virtuously in Society, Or in Solitude, Volume 2Vernor and Hood, 1799 - Solitude |
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... melancholy and dejected mind forced him inceffantly to lament , and frequently to weep over , the miseries and depravity of human nature . This difpofition , which he indulged to a ridiculous excess , joined to an enigma- tical manner ...
... melancholy and dejected mind forced him inceffantly to lament , and frequently to weep over , the miseries and depravity of human nature . This difpofition , which he indulged to a ridiculous excess , joined to an enigma- tical manner ...
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... remain ; they were published , together with thofe of DEMOCRITUS and TIMON , by Henry Stephens , in octavo , in the year 1573 , under the title Poefis Philofopbica . indifference , is , indeed , a melancholy example of 28 OF THE MOTIVES.
... remain ; they were published , together with thofe of DEMOCRITUS and TIMON , by Henry Stephens , in octavo , in the year 1573 , under the title Poefis Philofopbica . indifference , is , indeed , a melancholy example of 28 OF THE MOTIVES.
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... melancholy example of the fad effects which refult from an intemperate pursuit of worldly pleasures . Such a man may perhaps abandon fociety , for it is no longer capable of affording him delight : but he will be debarred from all ...
... melancholy example of the fad effects which refult from an intemperate pursuit of worldly pleasures . Such a man may perhaps abandon fociety , for it is no longer capable of affording him delight : but he will be debarred from all ...
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... melancholy of his dreary and dif- tempered mind . Even the tender , affectionate offices of friendship , in endeavouring to footh and divert his mind by lively conversation and focial intercourses , appear officious and ill - timed ...
... melancholy of his dreary and dif- tempered mind . Even the tender , affectionate offices of friendship , in endeavouring to footh and divert his mind by lively conversation and focial intercourses , appear officious and ill - timed ...
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... melancholy disorder , when he tells us that he had a vehement intention to retire to one of the American plan- tations ; not to feek for gold , or to enrich himself by traffic , but to forfake this world for ever , with all the vanities ...
... melancholy disorder , when he tells us that he had a vehement intention to retire to one of the American plan- tations ; not to feek for gold , or to enrich himself by traffic , but to forfake this world for ever , with all the vanities ...
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ABELARD againſt almoſt amuſements becauſe beſt bofom cauſe celebrated character circumſtances cloſe courſe defire delight deſcribed deſcription deſtroy difordered difpofition DIOCLESIAN eaſe effects ELOISA endeavour enjoy enjoyment exerciſe faid fame fancy fays feek feelings feems fenfe fenfibilities fentiments fhall fhould fighs filent firſt focial fociety folitary fome foon forrow foul fource fpecies frequently friends friendſhip fubject fuch fufferings fure furrounded greateſt happineſs heart HERACLITUS higheſt himſelf houſe human increaſe indulgence intercourſe intereft itſelf joys lefs mankind melancholy ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary notis obfervation occafion paffed paffions perfons PETRARCH philofopher PLATO pleaſe pleaſures poffeffed preſent preſerve purpoſe purſued purſuits PYRRHUS racter raiſed rational reaſon refignation religion reſpect retirement retreat ſcenes ſcience ſenſe ſeverity ſhe ſhould Solitude ſome ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſuch Syphax temper themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tranquillity underſtanding uſeful vices virtue virtuous whofe whoſe wiſdom
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Page 24 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 45 - He buried there, in solitude and silence, his grandeur, his ambition, together with all those vast projects which, during half a century, had alarmed and agitated Europe ; filling every kingdom in it, by turns, with the terror of his arms, and the dread of being subjected to his power.
Page 176 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 146 - In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Page 176 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 20 - Guilt is the source of sorrow ! 'tis the fiend, The avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings. The blest know none of this, But rest in everlasting peace of mind, And find the height of all their heaven is goodness.
Page 172 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 66 - ... modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity, so frequently- the disagreeable source of what is called wit in other men. It never was the meaning of his raillery to mortify ; and therefore, far from offending, it seldom failed to please and delight even those who were the objects of it.
Page 112 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Page 24 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation, such as is found to have been falsely and...