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A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. - [Education] A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos--ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. - [Hell] A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life. - [Death] A dismal, universal hiss, the sound of public scorn. - [Scorn] A fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. - [Architecture] A father or a brother may be hated zealously, and loved civilly or naturally. - [Zeal] A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. - [Principles] A universe of death Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived. - [Hell] Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. - [Goodness] Advise how war may, best upheld, move by her two main nerves, iron and gold. - [War] Airs, vernal airs, breathing the smell of fields and grove, attune the trembling leaves. - [Spring] All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear. - [Despair] All sorts are here that all the earth yields, variety without end. - [Variety] All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear The better reason. - [Proverbs] Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts. - [Fame] Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. - [Anarchy] And now the thickened sky like a dark ceiling stood; down rushed the rain impetuous. - [Rain] And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise? - [People] And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. - [Proverbs] Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men. - [Angels] Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger. - [Sin] Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote. - [Apostasy] Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. - [Consolation] Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel. - [Patience] At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come. - [Christ] Displaying page 1 of 30 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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