Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2author, 1794 - 304 páginas |
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... answer . ANECDOTE · L OF LADY G- ORD G- had by his irregularity brought his health into a very critical state , and his phyficians recommended matrimony to him , as the moft certain method of living regularly : he accordingly ...
... answer . ANECDOTE · L OF LADY G- ORD G- had by his irregularity brought his health into a very critical state , and his phyficians recommended matrimony to him , as the moft certain method of living regularly : he accordingly ...
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... agent from Xerxes , mentioning to him a vaft fum of money , he calmly answered , " Money , Sir , is a thing which must have nothing to do betwixt you and I. — If the King , your mas- ter , ter , is inclined to do good , as an ( 15 )
... agent from Xerxes , mentioning to him a vaft fum of money , he calmly answered , " Money , Sir , is a thing which must have nothing to do betwixt you and I. — If the King , your mas- ter , ter , is inclined to do good , as an ( 15 )
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... answer for me : for here he comes .. The gentleman at that moment entering the room , and , after fome apologies , being made ac- quainted with the bufinefs , confirmed every word his obedient wife had reported in her own favour ; upon ...
... answer for me : for here he comes .. The gentleman at that moment entering the room , and , after fome apologies , being made ac- quainted with the bufinefs , confirmed every word his obedient wife had reported in her own favour ; upon ...
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... of his health . The King fent the following.answer immediately to the Ifraelite , in his own hand : " Dear Ephraim , " Nothing but Death fhall part us . " FREDERICK . " ON ON SCANDAL . AGAINST flander there is no defence . ( 37 )
... of his health . The King fent the following.answer immediately to the Ifraelite , in his own hand : " Dear Ephraim , " Nothing but Death fhall part us . " FREDERICK . " ON ON SCANDAL . AGAINST flander there is no defence . ( 37 )
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... answer it ; it was either to choose to give him fifty pounds , or to have a brace of bullets in his body , he was deter- mined to be fatisfied , and if he did not comply , he fhould first have the bullets , and his men were ready to ...
... answer it ; it was either to choose to give him fifty pounds , or to have a brace of bullets in his body , he was deter- mined to be fatisfied , and if he did not comply , he fhould first have the bullets , and his men were ready to ...
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Página 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
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Página 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Página 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
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Página 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Página 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Página 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.