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... favours for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ornament of superficial attractions , is like a naked mountain with mines of gold , which will be frequented only ...
... favours for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ornament of superficial attractions , is like a naked mountain with mines of gold , which will be frequented only ...
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... favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that ...
... favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that ...
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... favours , may spare any attention to his behaviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that there is an art of granting requests , an art very difficult of attain- ment ; that officiousness and ...
... favours , may spare any attention to his behaviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that there is an art of granting requests , an art very difficult of attain- ment ; that officiousness and ...
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... favour of a peevish man , and exerting ourselves in the most diligent ci- vility , an unlucky syllable displeases , an unheeded circumstance ruffles and exasperates ; and in the mo- ment when we congratulate ourselves upon having gained ...
... favour of a peevish man , and exerting ourselves in the most diligent ci- vility , an unlucky syllable displeases , an unheeded circumstance ruffles and exasperates ; and in the mo- ment when we congratulate ourselves upon having gained ...
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... favour , and suffering none to ap- proach them , but those who never speak but to ap- . plaud , or move but to obey . He that gives himself up to his own fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of ...
... favour , and suffering none to ap- proach them , but those who never speak but to ap- . plaud , or move but to obey . He that gives himself up to his own fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of ...
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Página 441 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 136 - 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.
Página 104 - ... harmonically conjoined, and, by consequence, the flow of the verse is longer interrupted, It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh. This, with regard to our language, is evidently true, not because monosyllables cannot compose harmony, but because our monosyllables being of Teutonick original, or formed by contraction, commonly begin and end with consonants, as, • Every lower faculty Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste.
Página 443 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Página 435 - He tugg'd, 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 148 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Página 120 - 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 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Página 94 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Página 105 - ... to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence...