English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... beautiful Maria Linley . My parents were present ( over a quadrille 1 table ) when he arrived in the evening with his har- monious charge . From either of these connec- tions it may be inferred that my godfather could command an order ...
... beautiful Maria Linley . My parents were present ( over a quadrille 1 table ) when he arrived in the evening with his har- monious charge . From either of these connec- tions it may be inferred that my godfather could command an order ...
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... beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves , and worn - out appearance , nay the very odor ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circu- lating Library " " Tom Jones ...
... beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves , and worn - out appearance , nay the very odor ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circu- lating Library " " Tom Jones ...
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... beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavor to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex . In the mean while I hope these my gentle readers , who ...
... beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavor to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex . In the mean while I hope these my gentle readers , who ...
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... their admirals , which have been erected at the public expense , represent them like themselves ; and are adorned with rostral crowns and naval G ornaments , with beautiful festoons of seaweed , shells , ENGLISH ESSAYS 81.
... their admirals , which have been erected at the public expense , represent them like themselves ; and are adorned with rostral crowns and naval G ornaments , with beautiful festoons of seaweed , shells , ENGLISH ESSAYS 81.
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... beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb - stone , my heart melts with compas- sion ; when I see the tomb of the parents them- selves , I consider the vanity of grieving for those ...
... beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb - stone , my heart melts with compas- sion ; when I see the tomb of the parents them- selves , I consider the vanity of grieving for those ...
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Página 96 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 121 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página 92 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 97 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon further examination...
Página 2 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 5 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Página 80 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 70 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 67 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 95 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.