The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... situation in the city , but who had a small opening before his house , of a few yards square , and two plants , which once looked like lilacs , in large tubs , adorned his windows . Men were employed in painting the outside of the house ...
... situation in the city , but who had a small opening before his house , of a few yards square , and two plants , which once looked like lilacs , in large tubs , adorned his windows . Men were employed in painting the outside of the house ...
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... situation within the scope of his ambition , which he was not qualified to fill with dignity , and to the public advantage . He was a sound and excellent scholar , as the term is generally understood , but he was , moreover ...
... situation within the scope of his ambition , which he was not qualified to fill with dignity , and to the public advantage . He was a sound and excellent scholar , as the term is generally understood , but he was , moreover ...
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... had a sort of proud and manly disregard of lucrative situations , merely considered as such , and was not at all inclined to remit his ordinary VOL . 11 . Ꭰ ordinary habits , or to deviate from his accustomed paths 33.
... had a sort of proud and manly disregard of lucrative situations , merely considered as such , and was not at all inclined to remit his ordinary VOL . 11 . Ꭰ ordinary habits , or to deviate from his accustomed paths 33.
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... situation of Hydrographer ? It would be exceedingly difficult to point out a collection , without excepting even national reposi- tories , where so great a mass of books and tracts on geography and navigation could be found , as in the ...
... situation of Hydrographer ? It would be exceedingly difficult to point out a collection , without excepting even national reposi- tories , where so great a mass of books and tracts on geography and navigation could be found , as in the ...
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... situation , and local advantages , and exercising his mind on similar objects , with the addition of still more favourable opportunities , he very considerably added to the stores which his brother had acquired , and became eminently ...
... situation , and local advantages , and exercising his mind on similar objects , with the addition of still more favourable opportunities , he very considerably added to the stores which his brother had acquired , and became eminently ...
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Página 349 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 372 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 376 - Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth, unlimited its powers, Mind shall with mind direct communion hold, And kindred spirits meet to part no more.
Página 346 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 343 - Ascend my chariot, guide the rapid wheels That shake Heaven's basis, bring forth all my war, My bow and thunder, my almighty arms Gird on, and sword upon thy puissant thigh; Pursue these sons of darkness, drive them out From all Heaven's bounds into the utter deep : There let them learn, as likes them, to despise God, and Messiah his anointed King.
Página 326 - And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
Página 360 - ... quisnam igitur liber? sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus teres atque rotundus externi ne quid valeat per leve morari, in quem manca mit semper fortuna.
Página 340 - Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página 348 - Lee his sedgy tresses rears ; And sullen Mole, that hides his diving flood ; And silent Darent, stain'd with Danish blood.
Página 303 - Rolla made a fine speech with such logic and grammar, As must sure raise the envy of Counsellor Garrow ; It would sell for five pounds were it brought to the hammer. For it raised all Peru against valiant Pizarro. Four acts are tol lol, but the fifth's my delight, Where history's trac'cl with the pen of a Varro, And Elvira in black, and Alonzo in white, Put an end to the piece by killing Pizarro.