The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volume 2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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Pagina 2
... equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge whether making what is ...
... equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge whether making what is ...
Pagina 4
... equally sincere and warm in their com- pliments ; but though I was pleased with their at- tachment , I could not help being disgusted with the blunt plainness of their manners . Their conversation usually turned on subjects in which I ...
... equally sincere and warm in their com- pliments ; but though I was pleased with their at- tachment , I could not help being disgusted with the blunt plainness of their manners . Their conversation usually turned on subjects in which I ...
Pagina 8
... equally unfavourable and unjust . I know from experience , that nowhere are to be found men of more agreeable conversation , or women more amiable and respectable . Your late disappointment , in the reception you met with from your ...
... equally unfavourable and unjust . I know from experience , that nowhere are to be found men of more agreeable conversation , or women more amiable and respectable . Your late disappointment , in the reception you met with from your ...
Pagina 13
... equally happy in themselves , and beloved by all around them . Thus has Horatio , the gentleness of whose mind is equal to the strength of his understanding , by a prudent as well as delicate complacency , gradually effected that change ...
... equally happy in themselves , and beloved by all around them . Thus has Horatio , the gentleness of whose mind is equal to the strength of his understanding , by a prudent as well as delicate complacency , gradually effected that change ...
Pagina 27
... equally from both a pensive pleasure , which men who have retired from the world , like Umphraville , or whom particular cir- cumstances have somewhat estranged from it , will be peculiarly fond of indulging . Above all others , those ...
... equally from both a pensive pleasure , which men who have retired from the world , like Umphraville , or whom particular cir- cumstances have somewhat estranged from it , will be peculiarly fond of indulging . Above all others , those ...
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Pagina 266 - 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
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Pagina 95 - Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe, Where, round some mouldering tower, pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies ; Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
Pagina 177 - 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 180 - 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 263 - 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 261 - 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 262 - The time is out of joint ; — Oh cursed spite ! That ever I was born to set it right ! Nay, come, let's go together.
Pagina 134 - 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 323 - if Louisa will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never cease to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more ; when this heart shall have forgot to love, and cease to be wretched.