Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 2author., 1794 - 240 Seiten |
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... myself , and has hitherto gone ungratified : but when any thing of this kind happens again , worthy your acceptance , pray , let me fee you . " - The Gentleman withdrew . - The King smiled at the jeft , and confirmed the grant to the ...
... myself , and has hitherto gone ungratified : but when any thing of this kind happens again , worthy your acceptance , pray , let me fee you . " - The Gentleman withdrew . - The King smiled at the jeft , and confirmed the grant to the ...
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... myself ? " In faying which he rolled himself upon the earth , ftruck his breaft , and curfed the hour when he fell in with a man fo abominable . " It is in vain that I warn you , " faid the angel ; " you again relapfe into your for- mer ...
... myself ? " In faying which he rolled himself upon the earth , ftruck his breaft , and curfed the hour when he fell in with a man fo abominable . " It is in vain that I warn you , " faid the angel ; " you again relapfe into your for- mer ...
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... myself more clearly . " He then entered into the particulars of his con- duct , and the explanation of his motives for act- ing in the manner he had done . He spoke of the puerile attachment of the hermit for his cup . " You faw ...
... myself more clearly . " He then entered into the particulars of his con- duct , and the explanation of his motives for act- ing in the manner he had done . He spoke of the puerile attachment of the hermit for his cup . " You faw ...
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... myself . The unequal diftribution of good and evil in this world , I once cenfured.- I repined at the fight of beings in a more profpe- rous fituation , and complained of my own hard fate in the bittereft terms . I am now in another ...
... myself . The unequal diftribution of good and evil in this world , I once cenfured.- I repined at the fight of beings in a more profpe- rous fituation , and complained of my own hard fate in the bittereft terms . I am now in another ...
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... myself up to defpair , and accused Heaven of cruelty for fnatching them away from me , inftead of being thankful for having enjoyed them fo long . Time , however , and the tenderness with which the gentleman whom my father had appointed ...
... myself up to defpair , and accused Heaven of cruelty for fnatching them away from me , inftead of being thankful for having enjoyed them fo long . Time , however , and the tenderness with which the gentleman whom my father had appointed ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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 45 - Look'd through ? or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee ? II.
Seite 190 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. 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.
Seite 190 - Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart...
Seite 150 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death. Her looks were filled with terror and unrelenting severity, and her hands armed with whips and scorpions.
Seite 167 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand : To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign. Through him the rays of regal bounty shine, Turn'd by his nod the stream of honour flows, His smile alone security bestows...
Seite 232 - ... to the loiterer, who makes appointments which he never keeps; to the consulter, who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the...
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.
Seite 232 - ... who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances; to the usurer, who compares the different funds; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.