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Pagina 15
... give his mind a gentleness and a sweetness which all the hardness of applica- tion , and all the agitation of his employments , will not be able to destroy . There is no anecdote in antiquity which I have read with greater pleasure than ...
... give his mind a gentleness and a sweetness which all the hardness of applica- tion , and all the agitation of his employments , will not be able to destroy . There is no anecdote in antiquity which I have read with greater pleasure than ...
Pagina 16
... give a high idea of the elegant simplicity and virtuous tranquil- lity of mind of which the illustrious friends were possessed , when from the cares of state they could descend to , and feel amusement in those innocent and simple ...
... give a high idea of the elegant simplicity and virtuous tranquil- lity of mind of which the illustrious friends were possessed , when from the cares of state they could descend to , and feel amusement in those innocent and simple ...
Pagina 24
... give me leave to ask the name of your horse ? ' - The question was unexpected : - Upon my word , ' said he , ' I do not remember his name . -Oh ! now I recollect ; I called him Alexander , after M. de Villars , the noble donor : that M ...
... give me leave to ask the name of your horse ? ' - The question was unexpected : - Upon my word , ' said he , ' I do not remember his name . -Oh ! now I recollect ; I called him Alexander , after M. de Villars , the noble donor : that M ...
Pagina 25
... give it a harsher name , thrives not in the bleaker and more northern climates : there it is forced fruit , without that flavour which it has in its own soil . VOL . XXIX . D We can as little rival the French in their ease NO . 62 . 25 ...
... give it a harsher name , thrives not in the bleaker and more northern climates : there it is forced fruit , without that flavour which it has in its own soil . VOL . XXIX . D We can as little rival the French in their ease NO . 62 . 25 ...
Pagina 29
... give it ; she was under the necessity of assisting , of counselling , and of strengthening the timid resolutions of him who had been , in her earlier years , her instructor and her guide , and to whom , next to Heaven , she had ever ...
... give it ; she was under the necessity of assisting , of counselling , and of strengthening the timid resolutions of him who had been , in her earlier years , her instructor and her guide , and to whom , next to Heaven , she had ever ...
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Acasto acquainted acquired admiration affections amidst amusement appearance attended battle of Culloden beauty behaviour bestow called character choly circumstances conduct conversation Daniel Higgs dinner dreams dress elegant Emilia endeavoured fashion father favour FEBRUARY 22 feelings figure-making Flint fortune frequently genius gentleman give happy heard honour humour imagination indulge late learned letter live lively colours look Lord Chesterfield Louisa Lucullus manner marriage melan melancholy Melfort ment merit mind MIRROR Miss Juliana nature neighbour never nonsense verses novus homo object obliged observed paper passions perhaps persons pleasure possessed racter readers received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sensible sentiments Sir Edward situation society sometimes soon sort spect spirit taste thing thought tion torrent streams town trifling TUESDAY Umphraville Venoni virtue wish writing XXIX
Populaire passages
Pagina 160 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pagina 160 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Pagina 134 - That care, however, which watched his health was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Pagina 238 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Pagina 235 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Pagina 157 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Pagina 152 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Pagina 233 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Pagina 122 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Pagina 89 - Taller, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream, comprehends a moral so sublime and so interesting, that I question whether any man who attends to it can ever forget it ; and if he remembers, whether he can ever cease to be the better for it.