The Essayist, Or, Literary Cabinet: Containing Essays, Dissertations, &c, on Various Subjects. To which is Added, An Oration on the Completion of the Grand Canal ...

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Página 59 - O ye immortal powers, that guard the just, Watch round his couch, and soften his repose, Banish his sorrows, and becalm his soul With easy dreams ; remsmber all his virtues ! And show mankind that goodness is your care SCENE IV.
Página 61 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 78 - ... the same excitement. They are all branches of one stock. They form, and cheer, and stimulate, and, what is worth all the rest, understand each other; and it is as truly the sentiment of the student in the recesses of his cell as of the soldier in the ranks which breathes in the exclamation: " To all the sons of sense proclaim. One glorious hour of crowded life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 15 - ... pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words...
Página 65 - Yet sadly it is sung, that she in shades, Mildly as mourning doves love's sorrows felt ; Whilst in her secret tears her freshness fades, As roses silently in lymbecks melt.
Página 20 - ... the poor as well as the rich, the peasant as well as the prince, to the "feast of fat things...
Página 73 - On the last, page of fate's eventful volume, with the raptured ken of prophecy, I behold Columbia's name recorded ; her future honors and happiness inscribed. In the same important book, the approaching end of tyranny and the triumph of right and justice are written in indelible characters.
Página 16 - Everyone, noted another observer, "wishes to call forth the reasoning powers of girls into action, and to enrich the mind with useful and interesting knowledge suitable to their sex.
Página 12 - The gay vivacity, and the quickness of imagination, so conspicuous among the qualities in which the superiority of women is acknowledged, have a tendency to lead to unsteadiness of mind ; to fondness of novelty, to habits of frivolousness and trifling employment, to dislike of sober application, to repugnance...

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