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... once wished to crown his head with more glory and honour than what GEORGE or EDWARD would have spread around it . " But neither his own graceful compliments , nor the influence of his friends , if it had ever been exerted , would have ...
... once wished to crown his head with more glory and honour than what GEORGE or EDWARD would have spread around it . " But neither his own graceful compliments , nor the influence of his friends , if it had ever been exerted , would have ...
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... once sat next him at the table of our ambassador , Lord Tavistock , in Paris . The conversation turned upon Turin , where M. Dutens , though a Frenchman , had recently been the English chargé d'affaires . Sterne , ignorant whom he was ...
... once sat next him at the table of our ambassador , Lord Tavistock , in Paris . The conversation turned upon Turin , where M. Dutens , though a Frenchman , had recently been the English chargé d'affaires . Sterne , ignorant whom he was ...
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... once deserted me , or tinged the objects which came in my way either with sable or with a sickly green : in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and , when Death himself knocked at my door , ye bad him come again ; and in so gay a ...
... once deserted me , or tinged the objects which came in my way either with sable or with a sickly green : in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and , when Death himself knocked at my door , ye bad him come again ; and in so gay a ...
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... once , then twice , then three times a day , till at length I was within an ace of setting up my hobby - horse in her stable for good and all . I might as well , considering how the enemies of the Lord have blasphemed thereupon . The ...
... once , then twice , then three times a day , till at length I was within an ace of setting up my hobby - horse in her stable for good and all . I might as well , considering how the enemies of the Lord have blasphemed thereupon . The ...
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... once been spontaneous was often henceforth artificial - the forced effort to keep at bay an encroaching melancholy , which was necessarily intolerable , since in making him a sadder it did not make him a wiser man . The contrast between ...
... once been spontaneous was often henceforth artificial - the forced effort to keep at bay an encroaching melancholy , which was necessarily intolerable , since in making him a sadder it did not make him a wiser man . The contrast between ...
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Página 358 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Página 169 - E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways, Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim; There, while above the giddy tempest flies, And all around distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine.
Página 147 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Página 56 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Página 432 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great...
Página 387 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Página 182 - Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining...
Página 271 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Página 404 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 425 - Alas, I cannot see in the dark; nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat. Must I pore upon mathematics ? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.