The ramblerLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator . Good - humour may be defined a habit of being pleased ; a constant and perennial softness of man- ner , easiness of approach , and suavity of disposition ; like that which every man ...
... scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator . Good - humour may be defined a habit of being pleased ; a constant and perennial softness of man- ner , easiness of approach , and suavity of disposition ; like that which every man ...
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... putting on for an hour the armour of our ancestors ; for he will scarcely believe that men would have had much inclination will 42 N ° 73 . THE RAMBLER . The power of novelty Mortality too familiar raise apprehensions ·
... putting on for an hour the armour of our ancestors ; for he will scarcely believe that men would have had much inclination will 42 N ° 73 . THE RAMBLER . The power of novelty Mortality too familiar raise apprehensions ·
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Samuel Johnson. will scarcely believe that men would have had much inclination to marches and battles , encumbered and oppressed , as he will find himself , with the ancient panoply . Yet the heroes that overrun regions , and stormed ...
Samuel Johnson. will scarcely believe that men would have had much inclination to marches and battles , encumbered and oppressed , as he will find himself , with the ancient panoply . Yet the heroes that overrun regions , and stormed ...
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... scarcely possible to pass an hour in honest con- versation , without being able , when we rise from it , to please ourselves with having given or received sonte advantages ; but a man may shuffie cards , or rattle dice , from noon to ...
... scarcely possible to pass an hour in honest con- versation , without being able , when we rise from it , to please ourselves with having given or received sonte advantages ; but a man may shuffie cards , or rattle dice , from noon to ...
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... scarcely suffer a man groaning under the pressure of distress , to judge rightly of the kindness of his friends , or think they have done enough till his deliverance is completed ; not therefore what we might wish , but what we could ...
... scarcely suffer a man groaning under the pressure of distress , to judge rightly of the kindness of his friends , or think they have done enough till his deliverance is completed ; not therefore what we might wish , but what we could ...
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Página 143 - 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. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 134 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 91 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 250 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Página 118 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Página 433 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Página 104 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 58 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 195 - ... irresistible, bore him away. Beyond these islands all was darkness, nor could any of the passengers describe the shore at which he first embarked. Before me, and on each side, was an expanse of waters violently agitated, and covered with so thick a mist, that the most perspicacious eye could see but a little way. It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools, for many sunk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full sails, and insulting those whom they had left behind.
Página 148 - But all in vain : which when he saw, he ceas'd Contending, and remov'd his tents far off: Then from the mountain hewing timber tall, Began to build a vessel of huge bulk, Measur'd by cubit, length, and breadth, and...