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Side 10
... this extraordinary cha- racter in his eye , this circumstance will account for many of his eccentricities . However , we are confident , that in in the Swedish king many things were deferving of imi 8 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
... this extraordinary cha- racter in his eye , this circumstance will account for many of his eccentricities . However , we are confident , that in in the Swedish king many things were deferving of imi 8 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
Side 14
... circumstances . As she had been often called to read Homer and Ovid's Meta- morphofes to her father , she could have repeated a con- fiderable fiderable number of verfes from the beginning of both thefe 14 THE MONTHLY VISITOR . not ...
... circumstances . As she had been often called to read Homer and Ovid's Meta- morphofes to her father , she could have repeated a con- fiderable fiderable number of verfes from the beginning of both thefe 14 THE MONTHLY VISITOR . not ...
Side 44
... circumstances , I have no doubt but that he would amuse and inftru & t the world , by fome more finished works . " This is the critique ( in which I thoroughly acquiefce ) of a very competent judge ; who himself fuftained with ...
... circumstances , I have no doubt but that he would amuse and inftru & t the world , by fome more finished works . " This is the critique ( in which I thoroughly acquiefce ) of a very competent judge ; who himself fuftained with ...
Side 69
... circumstances could juftify . - Though few could penetrate with more acuteness into character , yet none was more apt to over- look mifconduct when attended with misfortune . He lived in an hofpitable manner , but he despised that hofpi ...
... circumstances could juftify . - Though few could penetrate with more acuteness into character , yet none was more apt to over- look mifconduct when attended with misfortune . He lived in an hofpitable manner , but he despised that hofpi ...
Side 202
... circumstances you would not dare to treat me thus . I have fent twice for a copy of the MSS * . No anfwer from you . An explanation or excufe for your fi- lence would oblige , July 24 . 66 THOMAS CHATTERTON . " MR . WALPOLE'S LETTER TO ...
... circumstances you would not dare to treat me thus . I have fent twice for a copy of the MSS * . No anfwer from you . An explanation or excufe for your fi- lence would oblige , July 24 . 66 THOMAS CHATTERTON . " MR . WALPOLE'S LETTER TO ...
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admiration againſt alfo almoft beauty becauſe beft breaft caufe character circumftance confequence confiderable converfation defire difplayed diftinguished enemy Evan Nepean fafely faid fame fatisfaction fcarcely fcenes fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fervant fervice feven feveral fhade fhall fhips fhould figh fince firft fituation flain fleet fmile fome fometimes foon forrow foul fource fpirit ftate ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffered fuperior fuppofed fure fweet genius happineſs heart hiftory himſelf honour human inftances inftruction intereft itſelf John Horne Tooke juft laft lefs loft Lord meaſure mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferved occafion paffed paffion perfons pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed prefent purpoſe racter reafon refpect reft rifing ſcene ſhall ſhe Sir G ſtate tafte thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe THOMAS CHATTERTON thoſe thou thouſand tion underſtanding uſeful virtue whilft whofe whoſe youth
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Side 67 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Side 16 - Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian...
Side 29 - Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.
Side 14 - ... had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment.
Side 139 - ... the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the tendency of his nature inclined him much more to blind partiality, than to ill-founded prejudice.
Side 300 - Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of " Mercury, and though we might be dragged along without "them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily, and
Side 234 - As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.
Side 410 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Side 283 - They reckon ten months in the year, fome of which are longer and fome mor'ter ; for they do not divide them by the changes of the moon, but by the order of particular occurrences that happen in thofe regions ; they commonly divide our year into two, fo that winter is one year, and fummer another : the fummer year begins in May, and the winter in November. They do not...
Side 234 - Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.