The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... seemed like a thing , as Shakspeare says of Love , too young to know what consci- ence is . He put us into Vesta's days . Evil fled before him -- not as from Jack , as from an antagonist , but because it could not touch him any more ...
... seemed like a thing , as Shakspeare says of Love , too young to know what consci- ence is . He put us into Vesta's days . Evil fled before him -- not as from Jack , as from an antagonist , but because it could not touch him any more ...
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... seemed not to know what it was to be subordinate , or to feel the necessity of moderation in the display of that superiority which would naturally result from his high rank . He received them with some OBSERVATIONS ON LYING . Lies of ...
... seemed not to know what it was to be subordinate , or to feel the necessity of moderation in the display of that superiority which would naturally result from his high rank . He received them with some OBSERVATIONS ON LYING . Lies of ...
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... seemed to have awaken ed all the energies , and to have aroused every honourable feeling of which the human heart is capable . The speeches of Mr. Wilberforce , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Pitt , appeared so insuperable , that it was imagined the ...
... seemed to have awaken ed all the energies , and to have aroused every honourable feeling of which the human heart is capable . The speeches of Mr. Wilberforce , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Pitt , appeared so insuperable , that it was imagined the ...
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... seemed to him con- trary to that exactness of truth and justice which became a Christian ; so that he withdrew himself from the inns of court to live on his estate in the country . And Dr. Garth , alluding to their practice , tells us ...
... seemed to him con- trary to that exactness of truth and justice which became a Christian ; so that he withdrew himself from the inns of court to live on his estate in the country . And Dr. Garth , alluding to their practice , tells us ...
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... seemed to seize with particular avidity every opportunity to play upon Bos- well , when any thing relating to Scot- land was introduced . " You must ac- knowledge , my friend Wilkes , " observed Boswell one day , " that the approach to ...
... seemed to seize with particular avidity every opportunity to play upon Bos- well , when any thing relating to Scot- land was introduced . " You must ac- knowledge , my friend Wilkes , " observed Boswell one day , " that the approach to ...
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Página 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 191 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Página 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Página 303 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Página 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Página 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Página 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...