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——— Quick am I to feel
Light ills, .... perhaps o'er hasty: summer gnats,
Finding my cheek unguarded, may infix
Their skin-d?ep sting-, to vex and irritate :
But if the wolf, or forest boar be nigh,
I am awake to danger. Even so
Bear I a mind of steel and adamant
Against all greater wrongs.
Southey.
Light ills, .... perhaps o'er hasty: summer gnats,
Finding my cheek unguarded, may infix
Their skin-d?ep sting-, to vex and irritate :
But if the wolf, or forest boar be nigh,
I am awake to danger. Even so
Bear I a mind of steel and adamant
Against all greater wrongs.
Southey.
Oh! Woman, lovely Woman, nature made thee
To temper man : we had been brutes without you :
Angels were painrrd fair to look like you :
There's in you all that we believe of heaven,
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy and everlasting iove!
Otway.
To temper man : we had been brutes without you :
Angels were painrrd fair to look like you :
There's in you all that we believe of heaven,
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy and everlasting iove!
Otway.
To do ill, in any circumstances, is the effect of a corrupt heart. To do well, when there is nothing to fear, is the merit of a common man : but to do well, when a man exposes himself thereby to the greatest dangers, is peculiar to the truly virtuous.
Whilst the conscience wakes, and the blush of confused and trembling guilt yet varies the complexion, the sin is not of long standing, or of deep root; but when the mind seeks to disguis itself from the danger—when playing upon the edge of the precipice, the victim willingly deludes itself, and appears hard and callous to every admonitory caution, then is the moment for alarm.
