The Art of Domestick Happiness: And Other PoemsRobert Patterson, 1817 - 316 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
ALEXIS bard beam behold beneath bids blast blind bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath burst bustard canker-worm chaffinch charms cheer CITY BELL claim cleanliness cried CURTIS dear delight dost thou Dove dull dust e'en earth Eliza fair fame Fancy Fancy's fantastick feel fill flow fond Friendship frogs gaze give hand happiness hast heart honours hope joys labour Lake Erie LENOX LIBRARY life's limb live loud lyre M'Intosh mind moral muse Nature Nature's Nature's law ne'er never o'er old Roan once opticks pain parterre Petrarch phlegm plain pleasure poet's praise Recluse rhyme round scarce sentiments shade SHUBRICK sigh sloven smile song sorrow spleen spread strain suppose sweet swell taste tear tell thee thine thing thought thy friend truth turn voice Whence Whilst wilt wise Zara zeal
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Página 144 - Tis yours, unmoved, to sever and to meet ; No pledge is sacred, and no home is sweet ! Who that would ask a heart to dulness wed, The waveless calm, the slumber of the dead ? No ; the wild bliss of Nature needs alloy, And Fear and Sorrow fan the fire of Joy...
Página 118 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 7 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Página 27 - Independently of their washing their mouths and hands before and after meals, as already stated, both sexes never omit to wash with water three times a day, — when they rise, at noon, and before they go to rest. They also keep their clothes extremely clean ; so that in the largest communities no disagreeable effluvia ever arises, nor is there any other inconvenience than heat.
Página 67 - Fullness of bread," we are told, was one of the predisposing causes of the vices of the Cities of the Plain. The fasts so often inculcated among the Jews were intended to lessen the incentives to vice; for pride, cruelty, and sensuality, are as much the natural consequences of luxury, as apoplexies and palsies. But the quality as well as the quantity of aliment has an influence upon morals; hence we find the moral diseases that have been mentioned are most frequently the offspring of animal food.
Página 204 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; " Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, " They keep the noiseless tenor of their way.
Página 67 - Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
Página 67 - ... the predisposing causes of the vices of the Cities of the Plain. The fasts so often inculcated among the Jews were intended to lessen the incentives to vice; for pride, cruelty, and sensuality, are as much the natural consequences of luxury, as apoplexies and palsies. But the quality as well as the quantity of aliment has an influence upon morals; hence we find the moral diseases that have been mentioned are most frequently the offspring of animal food. The prophet Isaiah seems to have been sensible...
Página 198 - O'er the void wilderness they wander wide From every self-imposed restriction freed. Tired out, at last, IMAGINATION halts. And, with dismay, from further search revolts...
Página 197 - LOSS OF L'EPERVIER. An earthquake may be made to spare The man that's strangled with a hair. CowM* p thou enlivcncr of the human mind Whqre SADNESS, else, and gloomy sorrow sweep, With raven wings through darkness unconfined, And cKBEftFULXEss...