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Side 20
... foul of the lover is heated with paffion - and paffion is a de- ceitful medium of judgment . Let him confider then , whether his Dulcinea ought not to be ftripped of the many gaudy colours with which he has perhaps thought- lefsly ...
... foul of the lover is heated with paffion - and paffion is a de- ceitful medium of judgment . Let him confider then , whether his Dulcinea ought not to be ftripped of the many gaudy colours with which he has perhaps thought- lefsly ...
Side 21
... foul fhe will not be fuffered to en- ter . He is engroffed by other affairs . He is taken up with fubjects more favourable to his welfare and felicity . The laft ingredient is long abfence . This has fuc- ceeded when every thing else ...
... foul fhe will not be fuffered to en- ter . He is engroffed by other affairs . He is taken up with fubjects more favourable to his welfare and felicity . The laft ingredient is long abfence . This has fuc- ceeded when every thing else ...
Side 22
... foul against virtuous love ; but it is his bounden duty , as he values his own peace and comfort , to avoid fetting his affections on objects which are ei- ther unfuitable for him , or which are beyond the reach of his poffeffion . In ...
... foul against virtuous love ; but it is his bounden duty , as he values his own peace and comfort , to avoid fetting his affections on objects which are ei- ther unfuitable for him , or which are beyond the reach of his poffeffion . In ...
Side 28
... foul of cruelty itself into infant softness ; and comedies , whofe nice delineation of character and genu- ine humour might delight the fage , and excite the most fullen mifanthrope to laughter ; but they are not the tafte of the ...
... foul of cruelty itself into infant softness ; and comedies , whofe nice delineation of character and genu- ine humour might delight the fage , and excite the most fullen mifanthrope to laughter ; but they are not the tafte of the ...
Side 37
... foul fublime Has felt the influence of malignant ftar , And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE . ( From MARY , a Fiction . ) MARY'S CHARACTER . EAR to her father's houfe was a range of moun were , speaking , cloud - capt , for ...
... foul fublime Has felt the influence of malignant ftar , And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE . ( From MARY , a Fiction . ) MARY'S CHARACTER . EAR to her father's houfe was a range of moun were , speaking , cloud - capt , for ...
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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.