Zeluco, various views of human nature, Volumen 11820 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 192 - Shall I be left forgotten in the dust, When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive ? Shall Nature's voice, to man alone unjust, Bid him, though doom'd to perish, hope to live ? Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive With disappointment, penury, and pain ? No : Heaven's immortal Spring shall yet arrive, And man's majestic beauty bloom again, Bright through th' eternal year of Love's triumphant reign.
Página 200 - To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail ; So varied he, and of his tortuous train Curl'd many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, To lure her eye...
Página 167 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod ; Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God Was one I chiefly...
Página iii - A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1 792 ; with an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.
Página 119 - Rental, a baronet with a thumping estate, fell in love with her, and she fell in love with him. So my uncle altered his mind, as it was very natural he should, you Know, and agreed to this new match.
Página 62 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 62 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. — Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Página 7 - With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?" — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies for ever. So very reasonable, so unmov'd, As never yet to love, or to be lov'd.
Página 107 - Content, or pleasure, but the good and just ? Judges and senates have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Página 176 - But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease ; And, with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack. No sooner could a hint appear, But up he started to picqueer,* And made the stoutest yield to mercy, When he engag'd in controversy ; Not by the force of carnal reason, • But indefatigable teasing ; With volleys of eternal babble, And clamour, more unanswerable.