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Things go ill in will turn to an advantage in the next . Let the north . Mr . Nisby ' s
opinion ... Walked in the fields . admirable talent at turning his friends into | Wind
S . S . E . ridicule , that nobody out - did him at an ill - From six to ten . At the Club .
Things go ill in will turn to an advantage in the next . Let the north . Mr . Nisby ' s
opinion ... Walked in the fields . admirable talent at turning his friends into | Wind
S . S . E . ridicule , that nobody out - did him at an ill - From six to ten . At the Club .
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The should be so happy as to gain his father ' s speech of Eve in particular , is
dressed up approbation , or become possessed of his in such a soft and natural
turn of words estate . I passionately loved him , and you and sentiments , as
cannot ...
The should be so happy as to gain his father ' s speech of Eve in particular , is
dressed up approbation , or become possessed of his in such a soft and natural
turn of words estate . I passionately loved him , and you and sentiments , as
cannot ...
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The latter of them I will to a pitch , that is , beyond the possibility turn off , if you
insist upon it ; and if Mr . of attending to any motions of reason or Froth does not
bring matters to a conclu - humanity ; then make a general sally , and sion very ...
The latter of them I will to a pitch , that is , beyond the possibility turn off , if you
insist upon it ; and if Mr . of attending to any motions of reason or Froth does not
bring matters to a conclu - humanity ; then make a general sally , and sion very ...
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... not stand for member of parliament Under a plantain ; yet , methought , less fair
, Less winning soft , less amiably mild , last election , for fear of some ill
conseThan that smooth watery image : back I turn ' d ; quence from my being off
my post .
... not stand for member of parliament Under a plantain ; yet , methought , less fair
, Less winning soft , less amiably mild , last election , for fear of some ill
conseThan that smooth watery image : back I turn ' d ; quence from my being off
my post .
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The learned reader She turns , on hospitable thoughts intent , cannot but be
pleased with the poet ' s imiWhat choice to choose for delicacy best , What order ,
so contriv ' d , as not to mix tation of Homer in the last of the following T ' astes ,
not ...
The learned reader She turns , on hospitable thoughts intent , cannot but be
pleased with the poet ' s imiWhat choice to choose for delicacy best , What order ,
so contriv ' d , as not to mix tation of Homer in the last of the following T ' astes ,
not ...
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Página 179 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 317 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...
Página 425 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 316 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 210 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 72 - Oh, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits masculine, create at last * This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men, as Angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 68 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 52 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 14 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Página 77 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?