Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 1author, 1794 - 1078 Seiten |
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... Garrick's genius is renew'd in thee . To give our nature all its glorious course ; With moral beauty , with refiftlefs force , To To call forth all the paffions of the mind , ( 32 ) ance, having an ambition to be knighted, ...
... Garrick's genius is renew'd in thee . To give our nature all its glorious course ; With moral beauty , with refiftlefs force , To To call forth all the paffions of the mind , ( 32 ) ance, having an ambition to be knighted, ...
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... beauty ; all admire her , though few would venture to chufe her as a wife . Qualifications that make a man the object of general applaufe , are not , in themselves , fufficient to conciliate our friendly regards . Amidst this univerfal ...
... beauty ; all admire her , though few would venture to chufe her as a wife . Qualifications that make a man the object of general applaufe , are not , in themselves , fufficient to conciliate our friendly regards . Amidst this univerfal ...
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... . They might have more beauty , perhaps ; but who will ever poffefs thy worth , thy tendernefs , thy charm- ing temper , thy good fenfe , and candour , in the fame degree ! " La Yes , " In 6 " In this addrefs , his eyes uplifted to ( 75 )
... . They might have more beauty , perhaps ; but who will ever poffefs thy worth , thy tendernefs , thy charm- ing temper , thy good fenfe , and candour , in the fame degree ! " La Yes , " In 6 " In this addrefs , his eyes uplifted to ( 75 )
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... to flatter in young minds the propenfities of self - love , by affording new fplendour or new attractions to beauty , all this prevented my wife's defires , and poured poured in upon her , as it were , fpontaneously.- ( 76 )
... to flatter in young minds the propenfities of self - love , by affording new fplendour or new attractions to beauty , all this prevented my wife's defires , and poured poured in upon her , as it were , fpontaneously.- ( 76 )
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... beauty , that fhe hears it fpoken of without blufhing or embar- raffment , as fhe would the beauty of another.- ' We may be proud , ' faid fhe , of what we have acquired ourselves , and modefty is neceffary to conceal fuch pride , or to ...
... beauty , that fhe hears it fpoken of without blufhing or embar- raffment , as fhe would the beauty of another.- ' We may be proud , ' faid fhe , of what we have acquired ourselves , and modefty is neceffary to conceal fuch pride , or to ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.