The adventures of Hugh Trevor, Volumes 3-4Shepperson and Reynolds, 1794 |
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... paffed a number of workmen , my moody apathy , though great , did not pre- vent me from hearing one of them ex- claim , with a loud and fuddenly angry furprize , " By G- that is he ! " I was at fome little distance . I heard the steps ...
... paffed a number of workmen , my moody apathy , though great , did not pre- vent me from hearing one of them ex- claim , with a loud and fuddenly angry furprize , " By G- that is he ! " I was at fome little distance . I heard the steps ...
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... paffed , was now beyond my reach . But how was I to act ? How discharge my debts ? What was to become of me ? I could find no folution to thefe difficul- ties . I was oppreffed by them . I was wearied by the excess of action on my body ...
... paffed , was now beyond my reach . But how was I to act ? How discharge my debts ? What was to become of me ? I could find no folution to thefe difficul- ties . I was oppreffed by them . I was wearied by the excess of action on my body ...
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... paffed within fight of his door , I felt the regret of quitting a human being whofe attach- ment to me was manifeftly fo ftrong and affectionate . But I had no alternative ; and I purfued my road . Winter was advancing : the weather was ...
... paffed within fight of his door , I felt the regret of quitting a human being whofe attach- ment to me was manifeftly fo ftrong and affectionate . But I had no alternative ; and I purfued my road . Winter was advancing : the weather was ...
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... paffed through , and take up his lodging . " He replied , " To be fure he was a little · tired ; for he had fet out a good hour after me , and I had come at a rare rate . Not but that he could keep his ground , though I was fo good a ...
... paffed through , and take up his lodging . " He replied , " To be fure he was a little · tired ; for he had fet out a good hour after me , and I had come at a rare rate . Not but that he could keep his ground , though I was fo good a ...
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... paffed . Per- haps there is no fenfation that fo cheers , and fooths the foul , as the knowledge that there are other human beings , whose happiness seems knitted and bound up with our own ; willing to fhare our fate , receive our ...
... paffed . Per- haps there is no fenfation that fo cheers , and fooths the foul , as the knowledge that there are other human beings , whose happiness seems knitted and bound up with our own ; willing to fhare our fate , receive our ...
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Página 131 - Gray; And warm thy old heart with a glass. 'Nay, but credit I've none, And my money's all gone; Then say how may that come to pass? Well-a-day!
Página 132 - His fat beeves and his beer And his merry new year Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day !" " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray : What then ? While it lasts, man, we'll live." " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day...
Página 132 - The lawyer lives under the hill, Gaffer Gray, Warmly fenced both in back and in front." " He will fasten his locks, And will threaten the stocks, Should he ever more find me in want, Well-a-day!
Página 132 - Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer Gray; And knock at the jolly priest's door. 'The priest often preaches Against worldly riches, But ne'er gives a mite to the poor, Well-a-day!
Página 95 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have wak'd their sleepers ; op'd, and let them forth By my so potent art...
Página 135 - ... to suffer imposition, from assumed worth and fictitious distress. Beings of supposed benevolence, capable of perceiving, loving, and promoting merit and virtue, have now and then seemed to flit and glide before it. But the visions were deceitful : ere they were distinctly seen, the phantoms vanished. Or, if such beings do exist, it has experienced the peculiar hardship of never having met with any, in whom both the purpose and the power were fully united. Therefore, with hands wearied with labour,...
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