Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volumen1author, 1794 - 1078 páginas |
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... gave him no time for reflection , having imme- diately fpoke to him in the following manner : - That he humbly begged his Majefty's pardon for any share or part he had acted during the rebel- lion against his Royal intereft ; and ...
... gave him no time for reflection , having imme- diately fpoke to him in the following manner : - That he humbly begged his Majefty's pardon for any share or part he had acted during the rebel- lion against his Royal intereft ; and ...
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... gave him proper in- ftructions concerning the part he was to act . Both left home in that condition . The young man knocks at the door of one of the fifty friends . He opens it to him with a feem- ing ing air of fondnefs and alacrity ...
... gave him proper in- ftructions concerning the part he was to act . Both left home in that condition . The young man knocks at the door of one of the fifty friends . He opens it to him with a feem- ing ing air of fondnefs and alacrity ...
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... gave an opportunity to the Greeks to exercife thofe vir- tues , which the freedom of their government had created and confirmed . Sparta remained under the influence of Lycurgus's inftitutions . Athens had juft recovered from the ...
... gave an opportunity to the Greeks to exercife thofe vir- tues , which the freedom of their government had created and confirmed . Sparta remained under the influence of Lycurgus's inftitutions . Athens had juft recovered from the ...
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... gave me every information relative to whatever was interefting in Holland . He re- prefented it as having no more than an artificial existence in its relations with all the rations of the universe , and continually occupied in ...
... gave me every information relative to whatever was interefting in Holland . He re- prefented it as having no more than an artificial existence in its relations with all the rations of the universe , and continually occupied in ...
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... gave her new charms , did not alter my conduct , and I anfwered , that it was on my account that I complied with cuftom ; that what appeared as luxury to her , was nothing but a little more elegance than ordinary ; that good tafte was ...
... gave her new charms , did not alter my conduct , and I anfwered , that it was on my account that I complied with cuftom ; that what appeared as luxury to her , was nothing but a little more elegance than ordinary ; that good tafte was ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Página 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 190 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 190 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 189 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Página 59 - I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures.
Página 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 25 - ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.
Página 8 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Página 45 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.