The Rambler, Volume 5Payne, 1752 |
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... virtue's heights , with wifdom well fupply'd , And all the magazines of learning fortify'd : From thence to look ... virtue can the croud unteach Their falfe mistaken forms of speech ; Virtue , NUMB . Virtue , to crouds a foe profeft ...
... virtue's heights , with wifdom well fupply'd , And all the magazines of learning fortify'd : From thence to look ... virtue can the croud unteach Their falfe mistaken forms of speech ; Virtue , NUMB . Virtue , to crouds a foe profeft ...
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Samuel Johnson. NUMB . Virtue , to crouds a foe profeft , Difdains to number with the bleft Phraates , by his flaves ador'd , And to the Parthian crown reftor'd . FRANCIS 121 Away , ye imitators , fervile herd ! EDINB . EDIT . 122 By ...
Samuel Johnson. NUMB . Virtue , to crouds a foe profeft , Difdains to number with the bleft Phraates , by his flaves ador'd , And to the Parthian crown reftor'd . FRANCIS 121 Away , ye imitators , fervile herd ! EDINB . EDIT . 122 By ...
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... virtue or reputation is able to secure an informer from publick hatred . The learned world has always admitted the useful- nefs of critical difquifitions , yet he that at- tempts to show , however modeftly , the fai- lures of a ...
... virtue or reputation is able to secure an informer from publick hatred . The learned world has always admitted the useful- nefs of critical difquifitions , yet he that at- tempts to show , however modeftly , the fai- lures of a ...
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... Virtue giv'n for loft Depreft , and overthrown , as feem'd , Like that felf - begotten bird In the Arabian woods emboft That no fecond knows nor third And lay e'er while a holocauft , From out her afhy womb now teem'd , C 4 Revives ...
... Virtue giv'n for loft Depreft , and overthrown , as feem'd , Like that felf - begotten bird In the Arabian woods emboft That no fecond knows nor third And lay e'er while a holocauft , From out her afhy womb now teem'd , C 4 Revives ...
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... virtue or weakness which way to affail :. Then with more cautious and instructed skill Again tranfgreffes , and again submits . WHEN Samfon has refused to make himself a fpectacle at the feast of Dagon , he first juftifies his behaviour ...
... virtue or weakness which way to affail :. Then with more cautious and instructed skill Again tranfgreffes , and again submits . WHEN Samfon has refused to make himself a fpectacle at the feast of Dagon , he first juftifies his behaviour ...
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affiftance againſt amuſement antient arifes becauſe buſineſs cenfured common confidered contempt converfation curiofity cuſtom defign defire difpofition diftant diftinguiſh diſcover eafily encreaſed endeavour enquiry equal eſcape eſtabliſhed fafely fame favour fays fcarcely fcience fecure federacy feems feldom fentiments fhall fhould fince firft firſt folicit fome fomething fometimes fondneſs foon forrow fortune ftate ftill ftrength ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fupply fuppofe fupport furely genius happineſs himſelf honour hope houſe infolence infult intereft itſelf juſt kindneſs labour laft laſt learning lefs loft mankind ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceffity nefs never NUMB obfcurity obferved occafion ourſelves Ovid paffed paffions pleaſe pleaſure poffefs praiſe prefent preferved promiſe publick pupillage purpoſes raiſe RAMBLER reaſon refolved reft Samfon ſee ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought THRASYBULUS tion underſtanding uſeful vifit virtue whofe whoſe writer