Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 |
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... same ftature , he gave him his inftructions . On the evening of the masquerade , as soon as his Majefty was feated ( who was always known by the conductor of the entertainment , and the officers of the Court , though concealed by his ...
... same ftature , he gave him his inftructions . On the evening of the masquerade , as soon as his Majefty was feated ( who was always known by the conductor of the entertainment , and the officers of the Court , though concealed by his ...
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... of a deluded and superstitious , but , at the same time , a corrupted mind ; for all men , even the most de- praved , are fubject , more or lefs , to compunc- tions of confcience . HOPE . HOPE . OPE to the foul , when distracted by ( 157 )
... of a deluded and superstitious , but , at the same time , a corrupted mind ; for all men , even the most de- praved , are fubject , more or lefs , to compunc- tions of confcience . HOPE . HOPE . OPE to the foul , when distracted by ( 157 )
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... same saving principles , who , though they cannot turn the wind , will turn their mills , and fet them fo , that whenever it blows , their grift will certainly be grinding . ANECDOTE OF SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM . IR William Wyndham , when a ...
... same saving principles , who , though they cannot turn the wind , will turn their mills , and fet them fo , that whenever it blows , their grift will certainly be grinding . ANECDOTE OF SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM . IR William Wyndham , when a ...
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Página 229 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 231 - Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Página 140 - cease your pother ; The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night And viewed it o'er by candle-light : I marked it well ; 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.' — ' Pray, sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue.
Página 191 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
Página 139 - gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Página 191 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Página 177 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Página 227 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 20 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...