The RamblerF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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Page 40 - O thou whose pow'r o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And chear the clouded mind with light divine. "Pis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Page 267 - infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 412 - groves of spices; he , sometimes contemplated the towering height of the \ oak, monarch of the hills; and sometimes caught the \ gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring : all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Page 7 - Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant plain ; Hills, vales, and floods appear already crost, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. POPE. THAT the mind of man is never satisfied with
Page 411 - Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. Benefits which cannot be repaid, and obligations which cannot be discharged, are not commonly found to increase affection ; they excite gratitude indeed, and heighten veneration ; but commonly take away that easy freedom and familiarity of
Page 416 - of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves - in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with
Page 66 - Yet O ! remember, nor the god of wine, Nor Pythian Phoebus from his inmost shrine, Nor Dindymene, nor her priests possest, Can with their sounding cymbals shake the breast, Like furious anger. FRANCIS, THE maxim which Periander of Corinth, one of the seven sages of Greece, left as a memorial of his knowledge and benevolence, was
Page 386 - inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country." If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. N
Page 305 - by excluding joy we could shut out grief, the scheme would deserve very serious attention; but since, however we may debar ourselves from happiness, misery will find its way at many inlets, and the assaults of pain will force our regard, though we may withhold it from the invitations of pleasure, we may surely
Page 49 - concluded innocent. The recollection of the past is only useful by way of provision for the future; and, therefore in reviewing all occurrences that fall under a religious consideration, it is proper that a man stop at the first thoughts, to remark how he was led thither, and why he continues the reflection. If VOL.