 Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in...  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Stran 169avtor: Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 234 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 strani
...repeating it: write it down in the first leaf of your pocket-book, and never doubt of it again." " Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee." Yet I observed that things were done upon the supposition of happiness ; grand houses were built, fine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 strani
...of misery being " the doom of man," in this life, as displayed in his " Vanity of Human Wishes." [" Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee."] Yet I observed that things were done upon the supposition of happiness ; grand... | |
 | 1885 - 932 strani
...difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 strani
...difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim...free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee.' 1. 9. in the attainment ... ' The great praise of Socrates is, that he drew the wits of Greece by his... | |
 | Dalhousie University - 1887 - 206 strani
...difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim...from grief or danger free Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee. 3. . Name the poem from which each of the following passages is taken : — (a)... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 strani
...difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 strani
...difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 strani
...of misery being " the doom of man " in this life, as displayed in his " Vanity of Human Wishes." " Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee." ; i Yet I observed that things were done upon the supposition of happiness ; grand houses were built,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 464 strani
...effects, for which strangers art account from the music, which is in itself uncouth and wild." " " Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for the*,1* •««• ••• HAPPINESS. 37 1 amusem&nt were contrived, and crowded with... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 strani
...difficulty fright; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade;... | |
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