The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Bind 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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Side 21
... laft ingredient is long abfence . This has fuc- ceeded when every thing else failed . The disappointed lover quits the fpot where the unyielding object of his affections hath charmed him into mifery . He fometimes feeks relief in ...
... laft ingredient is long abfence . This has fuc- ceeded when every thing else failed . The disappointed lover quits the fpot where the unyielding object of his affections hath charmed him into mifery . He fometimes feeks relief in ...
Side 28
... laft concluded , and was followed by an entertainment , if poffible , ftill more ab- furd . It feemed a ftrong caricature of the diftorted co- medy we had juft feen , with only one difference , that in this the figures made themselves ...
... laft concluded , and was followed by an entertainment , if poffible , ftill more ab- furd . It feemed a ftrong caricature of the diftorted co- medy we had juft feen , with only one difference , that in this the figures made themselves ...
Side 29
... laft with gazing upon an employment fo unamu- fing , I requested my conductor to depart ; he acquiefced readily in my wifh . " Call you this amusement ? " ex- claimed I , as we defcended into the street ; " to me it feems the moft ...
... laft with gazing upon an employment fo unamu- fing , I requested my conductor to depart ; he acquiefced readily in my wifh . " Call you this amusement ? " ex- claimed I , as we defcended into the street ; " to me it feems the moft ...
Side 47
... laft , reinforced by thirty Swifs warriors , we fell suddenly on the enemy , like the fall of a mountain , or as fome mighty rock defcends , rolls through the foreft , and with a horrid crush lay wafte the trees that interrupt its ...
... laft , reinforced by thirty Swifs warriors , we fell suddenly on the enemy , like the fall of a mountain , or as fome mighty rock defcends , rolls through the foreft , and with a horrid crush lay wafte the trees that interrupt its ...
Side 55
... laft month . We have taken a particular furvey of it , and fhall lay the refult in a few words before our Readers . The flighteft view of the feveral rooms , muft fuggeft to the spectator , that there is a more than ordinary number of ...
... laft month . We have taken a particular furvey of it , and fhall lay the refult in a few words before our Readers . The flighteft view of the feveral rooms , muft fuggeft to the spectator , that there is a more than ordinary number of ...
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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.