The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... proper arrangement , their merits , now lost and buried in the surrounding crude mass of materials , might be rendered con- spicuous , and the tribute of applause , due to their respective authors , be at length adequately apportioned ...
... proper arrangement , their merits , now lost and buried in the surrounding crude mass of materials , might be rendered con- spicuous , and the tribute of applause , due to their respective authors , be at length adequately apportioned ...
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... proper sentiments in the speeches of a prince , a general , or a counsellor , is more remote , and discerned by a kind of se- cond thought or reflection . As descriptions are all drawn from objects of the senses , and the likeness or ...
... proper sentiments in the speeches of a prince , a general , or a counsellor , is more remote , and discerned by a kind of se- cond thought or reflection . As descriptions are all drawn from objects of the senses , and the likeness or ...
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... proper to the season are represented , and afford a yet greater diver- sity of amusing images . images . Such is that admir- able description in Otway's Orphan : Wish'd Morning's come ; and now upon the plains And distant mountains ...
... proper to the season are represented , and afford a yet greater diver- sity of amusing images . images . Such is that admir- able description in Otway's Orphan : Wish'd Morning's come ; and now upon the plains And distant mountains ...
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... proper to give them fair play , and go out at his porch in a public manner , his court of clients pressed about his chair . Some signa- lized their zeal in keeping off the crowd ; others distinguished themselves by endeavouring to get ...
... proper to give them fair play , and go out at his porch in a public manner , his court of clients pressed about his chair . Some signa- lized their zeal in keeping off the crowd ; others distinguished themselves by endeavouring to get ...
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... proper remarks , in about four pages concludes . Now , had Hippocrates been to relate this case , we had never been entertained with the episode of the chamber- fellow's being sent to the Compter ; the many useful remarks and cautions ...
... proper remarks , in about four pages concludes . Now , had Hippocrates been to relate this case , we had never been entertained with the episode of the chamber- fellow's being sent to the Compter ; the many useful remarks and cautions ...
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admirable Æneid Alibez ancient appeared Aristotle beauty behold body BOSCAWEN Braminto brother countenance court daugh desire Didius Julianus Divine dress ears entertained epic poetry eyes fairy fancy father favour fear Florio FREE-THINKER gentleman give hand happy heart heaven Homer honour human imagination Jupiter kicking kind king King Henry's chapel kingdom labour ladies late learning Leonidas liberty likewise lived look lover LUCRETIUS mandarine manner marriage ment mind morning nature never observed pain paper passed passion Persia person petrifaction pleased pleasure poem poetry poets prince prove Pulcheria queen readers reason riches Romans ruin scene seemed sense sensible shew sight soon soul spirit spleen Texel thing thought tion told took true turned tutior UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR verger Virgil virtue whole wife wish woman writing young youth
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Página 260 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 182 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 328 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Página 122 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Página 53 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Página 4 - ... the Scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months he grew thoroughly reconciled to his condition.
Página 182 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 182 - Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, .and spoke, and sung ; Here, where the fretted aisles prolong The distant notes of holy song, As if some angel spoke agen, All peace on earth, good-will to men...
Página 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.