The Universal Anthology
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ISBN13: 9780217111386
Paperback|9780217111386
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: torian, she would have been precipitated into the gulf of human grandeur.?In ipgam gloriam prceceps agebatur. (Tacitus, Vita Agricolte.) Let us draw some salutary reflection from the scene that is now before us. Shall we wait till the dead arise, before we open our bosom to one serious thought ? What this day descends into the grave should be sufficient to awaken and alarm our lethargy. Could the Divine Providence bring nearer to our view, or more forcibly display, the vanity and emptiness of human greatness? How incurable must be our blindness, if, as every day we approach nearer and nearer to the grave (and rather dying than living), we wait till the last moment before we admit that serious and important reflection which ought to have accompanied us through the whole course of our lives If persuasion hung upon my lips, how earnestly would I entreat you to begin from this hour to despise the smiles of fortune, and the favors of this transitory world And whenever you shall enter those august habitations, those sumptuous palaces which received an additional luster from the personage we now lament; when you shall cast your eyes around those splendid apartments, and find their better wanting then remember that the exalted station she held, that the accomplishments and attractions she was known to possess, augmented the dangers to which she was exposed in this world, and now form the subject of a rigorous investigation in the other. LOVE. By SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. 1639-1701. Dramatist, poet, and wit of the Restoration, of unsavory life and works. His daughter Catherine was mistress of James II.] Love still has something of the sea, From whence his Mother rose; No time his slaves from love can free, Nor give their thoughts repose. They are becalmed in c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217111386 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217111386 |
| Weight | 1.15 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 356 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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