Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author., 1794 - 304 páginas |
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... imagine , was not a little furprized at the discovery : but Downing gave him no time for reflection , having imme- diately spoke to him in the following manner : - That he humbly begged his Majesty's pardon for any share or part he had ...
... imagine , was not a little furprized at the discovery : but Downing gave him no time for reflection , having imme- diately spoke to him in the following manner : - That he humbly begged his Majesty's pardon for any share or part he had ...
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... Imagine howling ; ' tis too horrible ! The wearieft and most loathed worldly life That age , ache , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradise To what we fear of Death . " Thus an Infidel , who has a lively imagination ...
... Imagine howling ; ' tis too horrible ! The wearieft and most loathed worldly life That age , ache , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradise To what we fear of Death . " Thus an Infidel , who has a lively imagination ...
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... imagine that the fenses glide away in the fame foft and easy man- ner , when nature finks into the profoundest repofe ? " There are few more beautiful pieces of writing than this , which was extracted from the Critical Review , in ...
... imagine that the fenses glide away in the fame foft and easy man- ner , when nature finks into the profoundest repofe ? " There are few more beautiful pieces of writing than this , which was extracted from the Critical Review , in ...
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... imagine this to be an extraordinary inftance of that humanity which , in every inftance , gains our esteem and approbation . of The requifites of Friendship , then , as we ob- ferved , are confidence , love , and eftecm : fuch as are ...
... imagine this to be an extraordinary inftance of that humanity which , in every inftance , gains our esteem and approbation . of The requifites of Friendship , then , as we ob- ferved , are confidence , love , and eftecm : fuch as are ...
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... imagine , and you may with all confi- dence lay open your heart to me . " ' I begin then , ' faid he , smiling , ' by confeffing , that my misfortunes are entirely owing to myself , and that my errors are without excufe . My pro ...
... imagine , and you may with all confi- dence lay open your heart to me . " ' I begin then , ' faid he , smiling , ' by confeffing , that my misfortunes are entirely owing to myself , and that my errors are without excufe . My pro ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Página 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 232 - Let me be quickly rich,' said Ortogrul ; ' let the golden stream be quick and violent.' ' Look round thee,' said his father,
Página 8 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Página 8 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 24 - is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually changing our scenes ; we first leave childhood behind us, then youth, then the years of ripened manhood, then the better and more pleasing part of old age.
Página 230 - The dishes of Luxury cover his table, the voice of Harmony lulls him in his bowers; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges.
Página 8 - larum bell ? Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds...
Página 175 - To purchase heaven has gold the power ? Can gold remove the mortal hour ? In life can love be bought with gold ? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold ? No— all that's worth a wish — a thought, Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought.