A True Estimate of Human Life: In which the Passions are Considered in a New LightG. Woodfall, 1802 - 107 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
affections on things affliction ambition anger angry ashamed blessing body calamity celibacy compassion contempt countable covetous death deceive desire disappointment discourse earth EDWARD YOUNG emulation enjoy enjoyment envy error ESTIMATE OF HUMAN eternity evil expectation fame fear felicity folly fond fortune friends give glory greatest hæc happiness hatred heart heaven Hence HERTFORDSHIRE honour hope imagination Indignation indulged infelicity injury judge labour learn the world lence mankind means means of happiness melancholy ment merit mind misery nature nature of things never Night Thoughts object occasions pain passions peace peculiar peevish pleasure present proper pursuit pusillanimity racter reason rence reputation riches rience ruin satiety Scripture Secondly seek sense serious shame shew sions sorrow soul sting strange success temper Thirdly tion TRUE ESTIMATE unac virtue voluptuousness Welwyn wisdom wise wish word wretched Young visited
Pasajes populares
Página 15 - The great are under as much difficulty to expend with pleasure, as the mean to labor with success. The ignorant, through ill-grounded hope, are disappointed ; the knowing, through knowledge, despond. Ignorance occasions mistake ; mistake, disappointment ; and disappointment is misery. Knowledge, on the other hand, gives true judgment ; and true judgment of human things, gives a demonstration of their insufficiency to our peace.
Página 12 - Ghost is serious, in striving against the obstinacy of our hearts: the holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most serious things in the world ; the holy...
Página 18 - ... in tenderness on its proper objects, as it is the greatest duty, so it is the greatest blessing of life : to have no one, to whom we most heartily wish well, and for whom we are warmly concerned, is a deplorable state.
Página 85 - The sun, the expanse of heaven, or what lies higher, have no lustre in his sight, no room in his pre-engaged imagination ; it is all a superfluous waste. When, therefore, his monarch dies, he is left in darkness, his sun is set ; it is the night of ambition with him, which naturally damps him into reflection, and fills that reflection with awful thoughts. With reverence, then, be it spoken, what can God, in His ordinary means, do more to turn his affections into their right channel, and send them...
Página 15 - The peasant complains aloud ; the courtier in secret repines. In want, what distress ? in affluence, what satiety ? The great are under as much difficulty to expend with pleasure, as the mean to labour with success. The ignorant, through ill-grounded hope, are disappointed; the knowing, through knowledge, despond.
Página xii - When heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend.
Página iii - Yon gems of Heaven ; Eternity thy prize ; And leave the racers of the world their own. The " Fourth Night" was addressed by a " much indebted Muse
Página viii - Enamoured of the present day ! My hours my own ! My faults unknown ' My chief revenue in content ! Then leave one beam Of honest fame ! And scorn the labour'd monument! Unhurt my urn Till that great TUBS* When mighty Nature's self shall die, Time cease to glide, With human pride, Sunk in the ocean of eternity...
Página x - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 95 - Where, more hearts pine away •in secret anguish for unkindness from those who should be their comforters, than for any other calamity in life.