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Side 13
... feel towards those who can offend no more . But all this would not happen to love , if it were not , as Mr. Burke says of beauty , allied to a species of melancholy . To those who have accompanied the human mind in its progress from ...
... feel towards those who can offend no more . But all this would not happen to love , if it were not , as Mr. Burke says of beauty , allied to a species of melancholy . To those who have accompanied the human mind in its progress from ...
Side 19
... feel a tear of gratitude trickling down my cheeks . A life of celibacy transferred her vacant af- fections to her fister's first child ; my weakness excited her pity , her attachment was fortified by labour and fuc- cess ; and if there ...
... feel a tear of gratitude trickling down my cheeks . A life of celibacy transferred her vacant af- fections to her fister's first child ; my weakness excited her pity , her attachment was fortified by labour and fuc- cess ; and if there ...
Side 20
... feel an interest in his mif- fortune . But , as he himself remarks , " his case is nei- ther uncommon nor peculiar . " So much the worfe . So general a species of distress calls for fome specific re- medy . I shall attempt 10 prefcribe ...
... feel an interest in his mif- fortune . But , as he himself remarks , " his case is nei- ther uncommon nor peculiar . " So much the worfe . So general a species of distress calls for fome specific re- medy . I shall attempt 10 prefcribe ...
Side 32
... feeling any pain whatever . Having started up , and run for the furgeon , with a fire - brand in one hand , and all over besmeared with gore ; to which , if added , my pale , short hair , and tattered apparel , he might well ask the ...
... feeling any pain whatever . Having started up , and run for the furgeon , with a fire - brand in one hand , and all over besmeared with gore ; to which , if added , my pale , short hair , and tattered apparel , he might well ask the ...
Side 36
... feeling , as if the rightful sovereign was diflodged . In this retreat she read Thompson's Sea- sons , Young's Night Thoughts , and Paradife Loft . At a little distance from it were the huts of a few poor fishermen , who supported their ...
... feeling , as if the rightful sovereign was diflodged . In this retreat she read Thompson's Sea- sons , Young's Night Thoughts , and Paradife Loft . At a little distance from it were the huts of a few poor fishermen , who supported their ...
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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.