The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and CharacterJ. and W. Sandford, 1836 - 216 pagina's |
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Pagina 19
... land , where fame and even pleasure awaited me , to roam in this barbarous country , to satisfy my curiosity , without doing much good to my fellow - men ? Why should I have left the charms of civil and social life , to wander among ...
... land , where fame and even pleasure awaited me , to roam in this barbarous country , to satisfy my curiosity , without doing much good to my fellow - men ? Why should I have left the charms of civil and social life , to wander among ...
Pagina 22
... land , and make no farther attempt to explore these dangerous paths . Curiosity is a vice , when it is attended by too much danger . Go , cultivate your maize - extend your commerce ; but leave the desert for those who were born near it ...
... land , and make no farther attempt to explore these dangerous paths . Curiosity is a vice , when it is attended by too much danger . Go , cultivate your maize - extend your commerce ; but leave the desert for those who were born near it ...
Pagina 44
... land . He soon met at a dinner - party the celebrated wits of the time - among whom was Richard Brinsley Sheridan , who was even then " the observed of all observers , " for at that time his infirmities were generally concealed . By one ...
... land . He soon met at a dinner - party the celebrated wits of the time - among whom was Richard Brinsley Sheridan , who was even then " the observed of all observers , " for at that time his infirmities were generally concealed . By one ...
Pagina 45
... land ; and he might have been still greater on the list than he is , if he had not used flattery and ever strained language in praise of his colleagues , in the trial of Warren Hastings . " The smile now became a loud laugh ; the wit ...
... land ; and he might have been still greater on the list than he is , if he had not used flattery and ever strained language in praise of his colleagues , in the trial of Warren Hastings . " The smile now became a loud laugh ; the wit ...
Pagina 48
... land . Nelson had fallen , and Pitt and Fox were sleeping side by side in their quiet graves in Westminster Abbey ; and Sir John now stood first in the eyes of an admiring nation . His life had been an eventful one ; he had entered the ...
... land . Nelson had fallen , and Pitt and Fox were sleeping side by side in their quiet graves in Westminster Abbey ; and Sir John now stood first in the eyes of an admiring nation . His life had been an eventful one ; he had entered the ...
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Pagina 201 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pagina 173 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Pagina 28 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Pagina 173 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th
Pagina 28 - ... earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.
Pagina 201 - But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross" — each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The man of Ross...
Pagina 207 - To caves bestrew'd with many a mouldering bone, And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan ; Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose, No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows ; HE treads, inemulous of fame or wealth, Profuse of toil, and prodigal of health; With soft assuasive eloquence expands Power's rigid heart, and opes his clenching hands ; Leads stern-eyed Justice to the dark. domains, If not to sever, to relax the chains ; Or guides awakcn'd Mercy through the gloom, And shows the prison,...
Pagina 1 - ... sake ; To written wisdom, as another's, less ; Maxims are drawn from notions, these from guess. There's some peculiar in each leaf and grain, Some...
Pagina 111 - By the sun, and its rising brightness; by the moon, when she followeth him; by the day, when it showeth his splendor; by the night, when it covereth him with darkness; by the heaven, and him who built it; by the earth, and him who spread it forth; by the soul, and him who...
Pagina 207 - Mercy through the gloom, And shows the prison, sister to the tomb ! — Gives to her babes the self-devoted wife, To her fond husband liberty and life ! — — The spirits of the good, who bend from high Wide o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye, When first, array 'd in Virtue's purest robe, They saw her Howard traversing the globe ; Saw round his brows her sun-like glory blaze In arrowy circles of unwearied rays ; Mistook a mortal for an angel-guest, And ask'd what seraph-foot the earth...