Exercises, Instructive and Entertaining, in False English: Written with a View to Perfect Youth in Their Mother Tongue, as Well as to Enlarge Their Ideas in General, and Give Them a Relish for what is Ornamental, Useful, and Good

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Griffith Wright, 1816 - 111 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 80 - Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean What reason can be given, Since marriage is* a holy thing, That there are none in heaven ? " ' There are no women,' he replied, She quick returns the jest, ' Women there are, but I'm afraid They cannot find a priest.
Pàgina 71 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Pàgina 35 - ... are weighed in the balance. The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the tongue of the wise is in their heart. To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life.
Pàgina 108 - Tis Heaven has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery. A little farm was my paternal lot; Then, like the lark, I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But, ah ! oppression forced me from my cot, My cattle died, and blighted was my corn.
Pàgina 35 - Economy is no disgrace; it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal.
Pàgina 108 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span — Oh, give relief ! and Heaven will bless your store.
Pàgina 44 - Accustom yourselves to think of the distresses of human life — of the solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan.
Pàgina 24 - Were you no more with goats to dwell, Brother, I grant you reason well,' Replies a bearded chief. ' Beside, If boys can mortify thy pride, How wilt thou stand the ridicule Of our whole flock? Affected fool! Coxcombs, distinguished from the rest, To all but coxcombs are a jest.
Pàgina 13 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end, These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the Worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies GAY...
Pàgina 54 - Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live.

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