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... faid to have been a woman of good understanding and genteel behaviour , though in low circumstances . As the had been often called to read Homer and Ovid's Meta- morphoses to her father , she could have repeated a con- fiderable ...
... faid to have been a woman of good understanding and genteel behaviour , though in low circumstances . As the had been often called to read Homer and Ovid's Meta- morphoses to her father , she could have repeated a con- fiderable ...
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verely whipped me . My master was very much hurt at this , and faid before me , " that never should that name be effaced ; for I was a boy of genius , and he was fure I should come to preferment . " This expreffion made me forget the ...
verely whipped me . My master was very much hurt at this , and faid before me , " that never should that name be effaced ; for I was a boy of genius , and he was fure I should come to preferment . " This expreffion made me forget the ...
Side 17
... faid his friend , " imprison a man for fingularity in writ- ing . " - " Why not , " reply'd Mr. Addison , " had he been a horse , he would have been pounded for ftraying out of his bounds ; and why as a man he ought to be more favoured ...
... faid his friend , " imprison a man for fingularity in writ- ing . " - " Why not , " reply'd Mr. Addison , " had he been a horse , he would have been pounded for ftraying out of his bounds ; and why as a man he ought to be more favoured ...
Side 22
... faid in the expreffive language of Gray , - Hard by yon wood , now smiling as in fcorn , Muttering his wayward fancies - see him rove ; Now drooping , woeful , wan , like one forlorn , Or craz'd with care , or crossed in hopeless love ...
... faid in the expreffive language of Gray , - Hard by yon wood , now smiling as in fcorn , Muttering his wayward fancies - see him rove ; Now drooping , woeful , wan , like one forlorn , Or craz'd with care , or crossed in hopeless love ...
Side 24
... faid a voice of heavenly sweetness . I turn- ed aftonished , and beheld a more than mortal form , robed in purest white : a lucid emanation encircled his frame ; his light hair breathing odor , flowed in ringlets over his shoulders ...
... faid a voice of heavenly sweetness . I turn- ed aftonished , and beheld a more than mortal form , robed in purest white : a lucid emanation encircled his frame ; his light hair breathing odor , flowed in ringlets over his shoulders ...
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admiration almoſt alſo amuſe beauty becauſe beſt Britiſh cauſe character cloſe confequence confiderable converſation courſe defire delight diſplay enemy Engliſh eſcape exiſt faid fame fatisfaction feel fince firſt fituation fleet fome foon forrow foul fublime fuch genius happy heart hiſtory honour houſe human increaſe inſtances inſtruction intereſting itſelf juſt laſt leſs Lord meaſure mind moſt muſe muſt nature neceſſary never o'er obſerved occafion ourſelves paffions perſons peruſal pleaſing pleaſure poffeffion praiſe preſent purpoſe racter reaſon reſpect reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſcarcely ſcene ſecond ſeem ſeen ſend ſenſe ſentiments ſerve ſervice ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhips ſhore ſhort ſhould Sir G ſmall ſmile ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpecies ſpirit ſpring ſquadron ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtream ſtriking ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed ſweet ſyſtem taſte tear thee themſelves theſe thine thoſe thou tion underſtanding uſe verſe virtue whoſe youth
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Side 69 - 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 18 - 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 33 - 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 16 - ... 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 141 - ... 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 302 - 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 236 - 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 412 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Side 285 - 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 236 - 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.