The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... fortune who had the sole right of dissolving marriages , as is often suggested in con- versation , I rather think he would not be called on to ex- ercise his function twenty times in a year , if the same time only for deliberation was ...
... fortune who had the sole right of dissolving marriages , as is often suggested in con- versation , I rather think he would not be called on to ex- ercise his function twenty times in a year , if the same time only for deliberation was ...
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... fortune ; since expe rience shews the fact at present to be directly the reverse . The very few men who maintain an uncontrolled sway over their wives and families , will be found , almost with out exception , among those who have ...
... fortune ; since expe rience shews the fact at present to be directly the reverse . The very few men who maintain an uncontrolled sway over their wives and families , will be found , almost with out exception , among those who have ...
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... fortune , in order to send him to Trinity college , Dublin . Here he soon began to be looked upon as the greatest genius , or the greatest dunce , in the whole university ; those who were but slightly acquainted with him , took him for ...
... fortune , in order to send him to Trinity college , Dublin . Here he soon began to be looked upon as the greatest genius , or the greatest dunce , in the whole university ; those who were but slightly acquainted with him , took him for ...
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... fortune and understanding ; among the rest , Swift , that lover , yet derider of human nature , became one of the most intì- mate ; and it was by his recommendation that he was in- troduced to the earl of Peterborough , who made him his ...
... fortune and understanding ; among the rest , Swift , that lover , yet derider of human nature , became one of the most intì- mate ; and it was by his recommendation that he was in- troduced to the earl of Peterborough , who made him his ...
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... fortune far beyond those who , in still more ele- vated stations , are slaves to expensive habits . Such men meanly pace in trammels of the tyrant custom till it leaves them scarcely enough to preserve their conscience , or even their ...
... fortune far beyond those who , in still more ele- vated stations , are slaves to expensive habits . Such men meanly pace in trammels of the tyrant custom till it leaves them scarcely enough to preserve their conscience , or even their ...
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Página 168 - 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 168 - 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 166 - 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.