Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 |
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... honour to the MISS Empress Catherine , had an amour which , at different times , produced three children . She had always pleaded fickness , but Peter , being fufpicious , ordered his phyfician to attend her , who foon made the ...
... honour to the MISS Empress Catherine , had an amour which , at different times , produced three children . She had always pleaded fickness , but Peter , being fufpicious , ordered his phyfician to attend her , who foon made the ...
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... honour of falling in his rank , and has fought the battle , though he miffed the victory . ANECDOTE CONCERNING MR . DRYDEN's ODE RELATED BY MR . WARTON . RYDEN's Ode on the Power of Mufic is Dthe most unrivalled of his compofitions ...
... honour of falling in his rank , and has fought the battle , though he miffed the victory . ANECDOTE CONCERNING MR . DRYDEN's ODE RELATED BY MR . WARTON . RYDEN's Ode on the Power of Mufic is Dthe most unrivalled of his compofitions ...
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... honours of the house of Stuart , Dr. Wallis was then Dean of Waterford , in Ireland ; and , during the troubles of that unhappy country at that period , fuffered greatly in his private fortune , from his ftrong attachment to the ...
... honours of the house of Stuart , Dr. Wallis was then Dean of Waterford , in Ireland ; and , during the troubles of that unhappy country at that period , fuffered greatly in his private fortune , from his ftrong attachment to the ...
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... honour , and mind- ing your ftudies , you have given yourselves up to lay and idleness . I declare , however , upon my honour , that all your nobility and girlish pretty faces , and and fine clothes , are of no weight with me ( 28 )
... honour , and mind- ing your ftudies , you have given yourselves up to lay and idleness . I declare , however , upon my honour , that all your nobility and girlish pretty faces , and and fine clothes , are of no weight with me ( 28 )
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... honoured the virtues of Morad ; but his poffeffions were unequal to the extenfive do- mains of Abubekar , whofe camels were counted by thousands , and whofe flocks and herds were as innumerable as the fands on the sea shore . Yet not ...
... honoured the virtues of Morad ; but his poffeffions were unequal to the extenfive do- mains of Abubekar , whofe camels were counted by thousands , and whofe flocks and herds were as innumerable as the fands on the sea shore . Yet not ...
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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...