The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining Treatise on Mistakes Respecting Pleasure and Happiness, and on the Objects which are Opposed to the Pleasures of Life, Usually Denominated Its Miseries |
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... young ambition in the little breast : Panting and proud , the frolic victors seize The thistle's grey down floating in the breeze ; Type of themselves , the airy truant strays , Shuns its soft bond , and in the sunbeam plays .. Not less ...
... young ambition in the little breast : Panting and proud , the frolic victors seize The thistle's grey down floating in the breeze ; Type of themselves , the airy truant strays , Shuns its soft bond , and in the sunbeam plays .. Not less ...
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... young emotion wak'd from soft repose . The retrospect of pleasures connected with our early days is a source of gratification , even to the latest period of life : - Be it a weakness , it deserves some praise , We love the play - place ...
... young emotion wak'd from soft repose . The retrospect of pleasures connected with our early days is a source of gratification , even to the latest period of life : - Be it a weakness , it deserves some praise , We love the play - place ...
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... young of all animals appear to receive pleasure simply from the exercise of their limbs and bodily faculties , without reference to any end to be obtained , or any use to be answered , by the exertion . A child , without knowing any ...
... young of all animals appear to receive pleasure simply from the exercise of their limbs and bodily faculties , without reference to any end to be obtained , or any use to be answered , by the exertion . A child , without knowing any ...
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... young children , without being struck with the alertness of movement , and buoyancy of spirits , so perceptible in those gay little beings . Perpetually in motion , constantly mirthful , they seem equally incapable of satiety or fatigue ...
... young children , without being struck with the alertness of movement , and buoyancy of spirits , so perceptible in those gay little beings . Perpetually in motion , constantly mirthful , they seem equally incapable of satiety or fatigue ...
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... young recall ? Fancy glorying in the future ; for what but joy do the young anticipate ? The consciousness of increasing usefulness and importance stealing on the mind , and yielding an elation , a sense of dignity , that encourages to ...
... young recall ? Fancy glorying in the future ; for what but joy do the young anticipate ? The consciousness of increasing usefulness and importance stealing on the mind , and yielding an elation , a sense of dignity , that encourages to ...
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Page 355 - While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What...
Page 238 - God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 283 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 242 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 212 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 102 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds ; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train...
Page 219 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 102 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 685 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Page 551 - Ah! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.