The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Bind 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... please , by the moving picture of human manners , and specious mira- cles ; nor was I then capable of discerning that Pope's translation is a portrait endowed with every merit , ex- cepting that of likeness to the original . S. THE THE ...
... please , by the moving picture of human manners , and specious mira- cles ; nor was I then capable of discerning that Pope's translation is a portrait endowed with every merit , ex- cepting that of likeness to the original . S. THE THE ...
Side 82
... please them ev'ry one : Fops , fools , and wits , are all carefs'd , The most esteem'd who flatter beit . Content to trifle time away , She flies to opera , ball , or play ; But only goes to be admir'd , By mufic , nor by sense , inspir ...
... please them ev'ry one : Fops , fools , and wits , are all carefs'd , The most esteem'd who flatter beit . Content to trifle time away , She flies to opera , ball , or play ; But only goes to be admir'd , By mufic , nor by sense , inspir ...
Side 98
... Please to be seated . Wave ceremony , and to the fubject- ( They fit ) Now , fir . " Del . About fix years ago , a certain youth came up from college ; poor and unprotected . He was a scholar , pleasing in manner , warm and generous of ...
... Please to be seated . Wave ceremony , and to the fubject- ( They fit ) Now , fir . " Del . About fix years ago , a certain youth came up from college ; poor and unprotected . He was a scholar , pleasing in manner , warm and generous of ...
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... please on first reading , if they have more novelty than merit . The second time they do not please , for surprise has no fecond part . In former ages men were afraid of nothing but cow- ardice . Even riches , which now make men so fond ...
... please on first reading , if they have more novelty than merit . The second time they do not please , for surprise has no fecond part . In former ages men were afraid of nothing but cow- ardice . Even riches , which now make men so fond ...
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... please mankind , particularly what pleases persons who have been placed in circumstances most favourable to the cultivation of their taste . For there are beauties which , displayed in a just point of view , must impart , even to the ...
... please mankind , particularly what pleases persons who have been placed in circumstances most favourable to the cultivation of their taste . For there are beauties which , displayed in a just point of view , must impart , even to the ...
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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.