The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Band 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... whole of his fortune to his other daughter , who married the late Lord Camelford . Be that as it may , the happy partners were bleffed with a fon , the prefent hero , who has fignalized himself in the service of his country . He was ...
... whole of his fortune to his other daughter , who married the late Lord Camelford . Be that as it may , the happy partners were bleffed with a fon , the prefent hero , who has fignalized himself in the service of his country . He was ...
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... whole rampant and debonaire ; and , while Cowley is fuppofed to have had no miftrefs , Waller had too many to love any : it would therefore be idle to enu- merate thefe writers as exceptions to a general rule . Beauty implies fome kind ...
... whole rampant and debonaire ; and , while Cowley is fuppofed to have had no miftrefs , Waller had too many to love any : it would therefore be idle to enu- merate thefe writers as exceptions to a general rule . Beauty implies fome kind ...
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... whole was blended , by distance , into one mafs , and the moon , to which we were fast ap- proaching , was now the principal object of my attention : its appearance bore a moft ftriking refemblance to the world we had lately quitted ...
... whole was blended , by distance , into one mafs , and the moon , to which we were fast ap- proaching , was now the principal object of my attention : its appearance bore a moft ftriking refemblance to the world we had lately quitted ...
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... whole , but particularly the head , which has an erect shining membrane above the nose , terminating in a fhrivelled point : the ears are long , rounded , and tranfparent : the cutting teeth are four above and fix below . I faw no tail ...
... whole , but particularly the head , which has an erect shining membrane above the nose , terminating in a fhrivelled point : the ears are long , rounded , and tranfparent : the cutting teeth are four above and fix below . I faw no tail ...
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... whole , prettily grouped and contrafted . The brothers efpecially , are an excellent pair of portraits . The converfations are fupported with confiderable fpi- rit ; and the few defcriptions which are introduced , are well drawn . A ...
... whole , prettily grouped and contrafted . The brothers efpecially , are an excellent pair of portraits . The converfations are fupported with confiderable fpi- rit ; and the few defcriptions which are introduced , are well drawn . A ...
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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
Seite 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.
Seite 410 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.