Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 |
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... tears ; telling her , that his duty as a Prince , and God's vice - gerent , called on him for that juftice which her crime had rendered indifpenfably neceffary ; and , that she must therefore prepare for death . He at- tended her alfo ...
... tears ; telling her , that his duty as a Prince , and God's vice - gerent , called on him for that juftice which her crime had rendered indifpenfably neceffary ; and , that she must therefore prepare for death . He at- tended her alfo ...
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... tear him from my affections , and the fentence of my lips decree him to make reftitution . Abubekar now approached the throne ; and having confirmed the charge of Nezam , and claimed the intereft of an affianced husband in Abima , the ...
... tear him from my affections , and the fentence of my lips decree him to make reftitution . Abubekar now approached the throne ; and having confirmed the charge of Nezam , and claimed the intereft of an affianced husband in Abima , the ...
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... tear of pity reflected more luftre on his cheek than all the diamonds in his crown . Morad , thy condemnation proceeds from thine own mouth ! Thou haft taken the daughter of Nezam , without the confent of her father ; G and and the ...
... tear of pity reflected more luftre on his cheek than all the diamonds in his crown . Morad , thy condemnation proceeds from thine own mouth ! Thou haft taken the daughter of Nezam , without the confent of her father ; G and and the ...
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... me ? " - The good paftor , melting into tears , took his purse , and giving it to him , " Take this , Sir , ” faid he " this is mine -- this I can give . " ELEGY STER ELE GY WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING . ( 53 )
... me ? " - The good paftor , melting into tears , took his purse , and giving it to him , " Take this , Sir , ” faid he " this is mine -- this I can give . " ELEGY STER ELE GY WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING . ( 53 )
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... in broken fighs ! Condemn'd to nurfe eternal care , And ever drop the filent tear ; Unheard I mourn , unknown I figh , Unfriended live , unpitied die ! SINGULAR SINGULAR ACT OF GENEROSITY AND CONTINENCE . HE Marquis de ( 66 )
... in broken fighs ! Condemn'd to nurfe eternal care , And ever drop the filent tear ; Unheard I mourn , unknown I figh , Unfriended live , unpitied die ! SINGULAR SINGULAR ACT OF GENEROSITY AND CONTINENCE . HE Marquis de ( 66 )
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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.
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Página 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...