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Abelard acquired advantages afford agreeable amidst Argenteuil attention Avignon beauties beloved bosom calm canton of Berne capable celebrated character charms Cicero contemplation corrupted dangerous degree delight Demosthenes Dioclesian Dionysius the younger disposition duties effects endeavour enjoy enjoyment entertained envy eyes faculties fame fancy favour feelings felicity follies fond frequently friends genius habit Hanover happiness heart highest human idea idle imagination inclination indolence indulge innocent inspire intercourse joys leisure lence live Lord Bolingbroke mankind manners melan melancholy ment merit mind misanthropy miserable nature neral never noble object observation painful passion peace Petrarch philosopher Plato pleasures Plutarch possess prince produce pursuits racter rapture rational religion render repose retirement retreat rural scenes seek sense sensibility sentiments shades sigh silent society solitary Solitude sorrow soul species spirit sublime sufferings taste temper thing thought tion tranquillity truth tumultuous Vaucluse vices virtue virtuous worldly youth
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Page 359 - whole. Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next; and next, all human race.
Page 25 - such immeasurable woe appears. These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles and bloom less transient than her It is the constant revolution, stale [own. And tasteless, of the same repeated joys, That palls and satiates, and makes languid life A pedlar's pack, that bows the bearer down.
Page 157 - the world. Virtue, for ever frail as fair below, Her tender nature suffers in the crowd, Nor touches on the world without a stain. The world's infectious : few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn. Something we thought is blotted ; we resolv'd, . Is shaken ; we renounc'd, returns again. Each salutation may
Page 263 - to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity- and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses
Page 65 - dim earth exalts the swelling thought. Ten thousand thousand fleet ideas, such As never mingled with the vulgar dream, Croud fast into the mind's creative eye ; As fast the correspondent passions rise, As varied and as high : Devotion rais'd To rapture and divine astonishment; The love of nature
Page 100 - flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind
Page 207 - with the ground, with a door on one side into a garden of which Charles himself had given the plan, and had filled it with various plants which he intended to cultivate with his own hands. On the other side they communicated with the chapel of the monastery, in which he was to perform
Page 177 - the tumult of the distant throng, As that of seas remote, or dying storms ; And meditate on scenes more silent still; Pursue my theme, and fight the fear of Death, Here, like a shepherd gazing from his hut, Touching his reed, or leaning on his staft", Eager Ambition's fiery
Page 29 - has very forcibly observed, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united