Essays: On the Following Subjects: Celibacy, Wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-murder, Lying, Detraction, Avarice, Justice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, DeathSmart and Cowslade, 1806 - 190 pagini |
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Pagina 46
... tear them asunder . ” This observation is particularly excellent , as it applies to ma- trimony . * 1 3 1 : Chastity in marriage is also a very salutary prescription for lasting respect and admi- ration . Marriage , which is a remedy ...
... tear them asunder . ” This observation is particularly excellent , as it applies to ma- trimony . * 1 3 1 : Chastity in marriage is also a very salutary prescription for lasting respect and admi- ration . Marriage , which is a remedy ...
Pagina 51
... shed the tear of sym- pathy , they have hardened their hearts ; instead of grievously reflecting on them- selves , how instrumental to seduction their severity H 2 severity might have been , and gradually raising up by 51.
... shed the tear of sym- pathy , they have hardened their hearts ; instead of grievously reflecting on them- selves , how instrumental to seduction their severity H 2 severity might have been , and gradually raising up by 51.
Pagina 53
... tear will start ! Unhappy pilgrims ! they cannot but re- member what they so lately were , and feel with poignant distress the situation into which , by one culpable act , they now are reduced , banished from their native homes ...
... tear will start ! Unhappy pilgrims ! they cannot but re- member what they so lately were , and feel with poignant distress the situation into which , by one culpable act , they now are reduced , banished from their native homes ...
Pagina 54
... tear on their frailties , and blot them out for ever , " will they , by the bitterest in- vective " * The writer of these Essays has often wished that in every city , town , and country , some sort of large manufactory were established ...
... tear on their frailties , and blot them out for ever , " will they , by the bitterest in- vective " * The writer of these Essays has often wished that in every city , town , and country , some sort of large manufactory were established ...
Pagina 55
... lovely penitent , mingles his tears with hers , seals the happy pardon on her quivering lips , and with godlike tendernes , bids her to sin no more . Prevention , Prevention , however , against this painful conflict , against 55.
... lovely penitent , mingles his tears with hers , seals the happy pardon on her quivering lips , and with godlike tendernes , bids her to sin no more . Prevention , Prevention , however , against this painful conflict , against 55.
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affront allowed ancient Athenian Athens avarice better blood body cation cause Celibacy character chastity Christian commanded committed conscience considered contempt Council of Trent courage crime death desire disease dismal divine drachms dreadful drinking dropsies drunk drunkenness duel duelling duty effects enemies Epicureans ESSAY evil excess exposed falsehood fear feel fleep fortune friends gibbets give gouts guilty habit happiness heart hence honour human injurious instances Jews justice justly King live Lord Lycurgus mankind manner marriage married matrimony mind misery Montesquieu moral murdered nature never oaths obliged observed occa occasions parents passion person Plato Plutarch Polygamy pride principle Puffendorf punishment reason revenge Romans sacred salutary says scurvy seduction SELF-MURDER sentiments sions slander sober society Solon soul spect spirit suicide tears tell temperance thing thou thought tion truth usually valour vice Vide virtue VITAL spark Wedlock wise woman women writer
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Pagina 113 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 189 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Pagina 92 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Pagina 172 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pagina 132 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pagina 171 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Pagina 92 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pagina 47 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.
Pagina 151 - HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words!