The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen4 |
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Having seated himself near where she sat , the countess . soon contrived to enter
into conversation with him , in that kind of audible whisper , which , on such
occasions , is the general vehicle of folly or of crime . From the state of her
feelings ...
Having seated himself near where she sat , the countess . soon contrived to enter
into conversation with him , in that kind of audible whisper , which , on such
occasions , is the general vehicle of folly or of crime . From the state of her
feelings ...
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... properly revew the impression than the examples which every day supplies ,
and as the great incentive to virtue is the reflection that we must die , it may be
useful to accustom ourselves , whenever we see a funeral , to consider how soon
we ...
... properly revew the impression than the examples which every day supplies ,
and as the great incentive to virtue is the reflection that we must die , it may be
useful to accustom ourselves , whenever we see a funeral , to consider how soon
we ...
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An action of his , however , soon made him more truly ridiculous than before :
curiosity leading him one day to see an execution , he returned home pensive
and melancholy , and could not forbear reflecting on what he had seen . He
desired to ...
An action of his , however , soon made him more truly ridiculous than before :
curiosity leading him one day to see an execution , he returned home pensive
and melancholy , and could not forbear reflecting on what he had seen . He
desired to ...
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He then , with firmness , bade the stranger follow him into another apartment ;
who soon gave his lordship to understand , that he was no less a personage ,
than the famous Major Semple , of swindling notoriety . With a ' considerable
degree ...
He then , with firmness , bade the stranger follow him into another apartment ;
who soon gave his lordship to understand , that he was no less a personage ,
than the famous Major Semple , of swindling notoriety . With a ' considerable
degree ...
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Let thoughtless youth its seeming joys pursue , Soon will they learn to scan , with
thoughtful eye , The illusive past , and dark futurity ; Soon will they know stern
disappointment ' s true ! II . Let them continue in the pleasant road , Where
Fortune ...
Let thoughtless youth its seeming joys pursue , Soon will they learn to scan , with
thoughtful eye , The illusive past , and dark futurity ; Soon will they know stern
disappointment ' s true ! II . Let them continue in the pleasant road , Where
Fortune ...
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Página 170 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Página 169 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Página 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
Página 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 167 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.