A mental tooth-pick for the fair sex [signed Philoguna]. |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 103 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
עמוד 49 - Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
עמוד 104 - Of a mere, lifelefs, violated form : While thofe whom love cements in holy faith, And equal tranfport, free as Nature live, Difdaining fear.
עמוד 103 - Perfeft eftcein, enliven'd by defire Ineffable, and fympathy of foul ; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundlefs confidence : for nought but love Can anfwer love, and render blifs fecure.
עמוד 104 - Who in each other clafp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavifh hearts can wifh; Something than beauty dearer...
עמוד 13 - The acknowledgment of thofe virtues on which confcience congratulates us, is a tribute that we can at any time exact with confidence ; but the celebration of thofe which we only feign, or defire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a...
עמוד 149 - Can" ton reports, that in the town of Sinhoei, a beau" tiful young woman, named Leang, facrificed her " life to fave her chaftity. In the fifteenth year " of our Emperor Canghi, fhe was dragged by " pirates into their fhip; and having no other " way to efcape their brutal luft, fhe threw herfelf " headlong into the fea. Being of opinion, that " to prefer honour before life is an example wor...