Poems on Several Occasions..John, Francis and Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown (no 62.) in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1776 - 120 páginas |
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Página 110 - Providence diffused such innumerable objects of delight, but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent author of it? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent, is virtue and obedience; and to reject them, merely as means of pleasure, is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
Página 107 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death. Her looks were filled with terror and unrelenting severity, and her hands armed with whips and scorpions.
Página 87 - Fortune's gem, Ambition's plume, Nor Cytherea's fading bloom, > Be objects of my pray'r : Let Av'rice, Vanity, and Pride, These glitt'ring envy'd toys divide, The dull rewards of Care. To me thy better gifts impart, Each moral beauty of the heart By studious thought refin'd : For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, For Pow'r, its amplest, best extent, An empire o'er my mind.
Página 108 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it, acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Página 113 - Return then with me from continual misery to moderate enjoyment, and grateful alacrity. Return from the contracted views of solitude to the proper duties of a relative and dependent being.
Página 113 - The happiness allotted to man in his present state, is indeed faint and low, compared with his immortal prospects, and noble capacities; but yet whatever portion of it the distributing hand of heaven offers to each individual, is a needful support and refreshment for the present moment, so far as it may not hinder the attaining of his final destination.
Página 66 - In vain through beauty, fortune, wit, The fugitive we trace ; It dwells not in the faithless smile, That brightens Clodio's face. Perhaps the joy to these deny'd, The heart in friendship finds : Ah ! dear delusion ! gay conceit...
Página 66 - Where fhall the lovely fleeting form Of Happinefs be found ? Does it amidft the frolic mirth Of gay aflemblies dwell ? Or hide beneath the folemn gloom, That fhades the hermit's cell? " How oft the laughing brow of joy A fick'ning heart conceals ! And thro' the cloifter's deep recefs, Invading forrow fleals.
Página 85 - Thro' the thick fhades now wings his flight, And quits his time-fhook tow'r ; Where, fhelter'd from the blaze of day, In philofophic gloom he lay Beneath his ivy bow'r. With joy I hear the folemn found, Which midnight echoes waft around, And fighing gales repeat.
Página 114 - Superstition, by which she endeavours to break those chains of benevolence and social affection, that link the welfare of every particular with that of the whole. Remember that the greatest honour you can pay to the Author of your being is by such a cheerful behaviour, as discovers a mind satisfied with his dispensations.