Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 |
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Strona 27
... courage , and like the heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a ...
... courage , and like the heart , gives warmth , vigour , and animation to the whole frame : after all , however , it must be admitted , that love is more a matter of feeling than of argu- ment , the subtilty of this passion remains a ...
Strona 45
... courage is evidently in favour of the ladies , and to their credit be it mentioned , they are in other respects better drilled for the ceremonies of that office ; while the bridegroom , alas ! in the midst of affected gaiety , of ...
... courage is evidently in favour of the ladies , and to their credit be it mentioned , they are in other respects better drilled for the ceremonies of that office ; while the bridegroom , alas ! in the midst of affected gaiety , of ...
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... courage is no virtue in him , and if he fears , he is con- scious of cowardice . The most courageous among brutes are not insensible to the impressions of fear : Natural M 2 Natural History will inform us , that the Lion is.
... courage is no virtue in him , and if he fears , he is con- scious of cowardice . The most courageous among brutes are not insensible to the impressions of fear : Natural M 2 Natural History will inform us , that the Lion is.
Strona 84
... his squire , who was arming him , and en- deavouring to animate him , “ Poor man , you know but little of me . Could my flesh be sensi- ble of the dangers to which my courage will this day day expose me , I should be worse off than 84.
... his squire , who was arming him , and en- deavouring to animate him , “ Poor man , you know but little of me . Could my flesh be sensi- ble of the dangers to which my courage will this day day expose me , I should be worse off than 84.
Strona 85
... courage : it was unknown to the heroes of Greece and Rome , and takes its origin from times of ignorance and barbarity . Even among the northern nations which tolerated the use of duels , they urged in apo- logy for them , that the ...
... courage : it was unknown to the heroes of Greece and Rome , and takes its origin from times of ignorance and barbarity . Even among the northern nations which tolerated the use of duels , they urged in apo- logy for them , that the ...
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Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride ... Edward Barry Podgląd niedostępny - 2018 |
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Strona 113 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Strona 189 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Strona 92 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Strona 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Strona 172 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Strona 132 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Strona 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Strona 92 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Strona 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Strona 151 - HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words!