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... manners might corrupt his disposition , occasioned a speedy return to his parents , who again placed him at school . The person to whom he was now confided was the celebrated Samuel Johnson , who proposed to receive a few pupils at ...
... manners might corrupt his disposition , occasioned a speedy return to his parents , who again placed him at school . The person to whom he was now confided was the celebrated Samuel Johnson , who proposed to receive a few pupils at ...
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... manner , which no art can be- stow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows many , even from infancy , his deportment was constantly easy , natural , and engaging . His complexion was dark ; the features of his face pleasing ...
... manner , which no art can be- stow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows many , even from infancy , his deportment was constantly easy , natural , and engaging . His complexion was dark ; the features of his face pleasing ...
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... manner of copying from her various productions . As if she had marked him out for her truest representative from the cradle , she bestowed on him such . powers of expression in the muscles of his face , as no performer ever yet ...
... manner of copying from her various productions . As if she had marked him out for her truest representative from the cradle , she bestowed on him such . powers of expression in the muscles of his face , as no performer ever yet ...
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... manner , that Preville gave an involuntary cry of horror ; and his terror greatly increased when he found that his friend made no answers to his questions . After wiping the dust from his face , he asked again , with the emotion and ...
... manner , that Preville gave an involuntary cry of horror ; and his terror greatly increased when he found that his friend made no answers to his questions . After wiping the dust from his face , he asked again , with the emotion and ...
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... manners gentle , and affections mild , In wit a man , simplicity a child ; With native humour tempting virtuous rage , Form'd to delight at once , and lash the age , Above temptation in a low estate , And uncorrupted even among the ...
... manners gentle , and affections mild , In wit a man , simplicity a child ; With native humour tempting virtuous rage , Form'd to delight at once , and lash the age , Above temptation in a low estate , And uncorrupted even among the ...
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Página 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Página 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Página 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Página 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 511 - 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...