Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volumen2author, 1794 - 304 páginas |
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... confiderable change in their affairs . Retrofpection , it is true , fometimes drew fighs from Mrs. Clinton's gentle bofom ; but the philofophic confolations of him , who had from his wedding wedding - day made her happiness the ...
... confiderable change in their affairs . Retrofpection , it is true , fometimes drew fighs from Mrs. Clinton's gentle bofom ; but the philofophic confolations of him , who had from his wedding wedding - day made her happiness the ...
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... confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always contending to be mistress of him and his family , he was refolved to part with her ...
... confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always contending to be mistress of him and his family , he was refolved to part with her ...
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... confiderable wager de- pends upon it , and it may be fome advantage to yourself to declare the truth to me , I hope these confiderations will plead my excufe .-- It is , Ma- dam , to defire to be informed , whether you go- vern your ...
... confiderable wager de- pends upon it , and it may be fome advantage to yourself to declare the truth to me , I hope these confiderations will plead my excufe .-- It is , Ma- dam , to defire to be informed , whether you go- vern your ...
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... O F FREDERICK THE GREAT , H'S LATE KING OF PRUSSIA . IS MAJESTY being incognito at Amsterdam , wifhed to fpeak to a banker who was to pay him a confiderable fum of money . He therefore went went to his houfe ; but not finding him at ( 100 )
... O F FREDERICK THE GREAT , H'S LATE KING OF PRUSSIA . IS MAJESTY being incognito at Amsterdam , wifhed to fpeak to a banker who was to pay him a confiderable fum of money . He therefore went went to his houfe ; but not finding him at ( 100 )
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... confiderable an ac- quifition , was greatly increafed by the feeling him- felf in a fituation to renew his addreffes to his love- ly Clara with more confidence . Some men , in- deed , would have been so disgufted at a first refu- fal ...
... confiderable an ac- quifition , was greatly increafed by the feeling him- felf in a fituation to renew his addreffes to his love- ly Clara with more confidence . Some men , in- deed , would have been so disgufted at a first refu- fal ...
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Página 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 295 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Página 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 207 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Página 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Página 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Página 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.