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From the river Thames , you see thro ' my arch up a walk of the wilderness , to a
kind of open Temple , wholly compos'd of shells in the rustic manner ; and from
that distance under the temple you look down thro ' a floping arcade of trees , and
...
From the river Thames , you see thro ' my arch up a walk of the wilderness , to a
kind of open Temple , wholly compos'd of shells in the rustic manner ; and from
that distance under the temple you look down thro ' a floping arcade of trees , and
...
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... to open , thro ' the thinner woods , over the valleys ; and thro ' the high
canopies of trees to the higher arch of heaven : the dews of the morning impearl
every thorn , and scatter diamonds on the verdant mantle of the earth ; the frosts
are fresh ...
... to open , thro ' the thinner woods , over the valleys ; and thro ' the high
canopies of trees to the higher arch of heaven : the dews of the morning impearl
every thorn , and scatter diamonds on the verdant mantle of the earth ; the frosts
are fresh ...
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... of us , the Women may . From the time you have been absent , I've not been to
wait on a certain great man , thro ' modesty , thro ' idleness , and thro ' respect .
But for my comfort fort I fancy , that any great man will as 156 LETTERS TO AND.
... of us , the Women may . From the time you have been absent , I've not been to
wait on a certain great man , thro ' modesty , thro ' idleness , and thro ' respect .
But for my comfort fort I fancy , that any great man will as 156 LETTERS TO AND.
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Pofterity will , thro ' your means , see the man whom it will for ages honour ,
vindicate , and applaud , when envy is no more , and when ( as I have already
said in the Effay to which you are so partial ) The fons fhall blush their fathers
were his ...
Pofterity will , thro ' your means , see the man whom it will for ages honour ,
vindicate , and applaud , when envy is no more , and when ( as I have already
said in the Effay to which you are so partial ) The fons fhall blush their fathers
were his ...
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Above all , your Lordship will be careful not to wrong my Moral Character , with
Those * under whose Protection I live , and thro ' whose Lenity alone I can live
with Comfort . Your Lordship , I am confident , upon confideration will think , you ...
Above all , your Lordship will be careful not to wrong my Moral Character , with
Those * under whose Protection I live , and thro ' whose Lenity alone I can live
with Comfort . Your Lordship , I am confident , upon confideration will think , you ...
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Seite 111 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. " Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 8 - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken. The old man then lay down...
Seite 98 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration.
Seite 67 - I faid to you in mine about the Monument, was intended only to quicken, not to alarm you. It is not worth your while to know what I meant by it : but when I fee you, you mall.
Seite 180 - Horace their companion, though he had been in arms on the side of Brutus ; and allow me to remark, it was out of the suffering party too that they favoured and distinguished Virgil.
Seite 26 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Seite 97 - ... our declining years, the drums and rattles of ambition, and the dirt and bubbles of avarice.
Seite 75 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
Seite 97 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.