The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Parte2,Volumen20

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Página 397 - Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen tombs ; And then grace us in the disgrace of death : When, spite of cormorant devouring time, The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall 'bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Página 397 - When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow/; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the* unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 450 - turns! Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine, as 'twere, in love inseparable, shall within this hour, •On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity. Shakspeare.
Página 433 - that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care; The birth of each day's life, sore labour's bath. Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course. Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Página 404 - The night was winter in its roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills. And where the woods fence off the northern blast. The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May.
Página 458 - yet man perceiveth it not : in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering* upon the bed. Job xxxiii. 15. He
Página 427 - them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever.
Página 397 - Find out the peaceful hermitage ; The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew. And every herb that
Página 595 - Here's the smell of the blood still ; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh ! oh ! oh !—What a sigh is there ! the heart is
Página 451 - To rise at noon, sit slipshod and undressed, To read the news, or fiddle, as seems best, Till half the world comes rattling at his door, To fill the dull vacuity till four ; ' And, just when evening turns the blue vault gray, To spend two hours in dressing for the day.

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