The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818 |
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... familiar , or less interesting . Contrasted to the above , are two extraordinary instances of ignorance , which ap- pear to have been written down as marvellous ex- amples of a total want of comprehension and intel- ligence . A woman of ...
... familiar , or less interesting . Contrasted to the above , are two extraordinary instances of ignorance , which ap- pear to have been written down as marvellous ex- amples of a total want of comprehension and intel- ligence . A woman of ...
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... familiar commu- nication and personal observation , so well ac- quainted with the natural history of the country , the peculiarities of the climate , its endemic diseases , the manners of the inhabitants , laws , usages , and ...
... familiar commu- nication and personal observation , so well ac- quainted with the natural history of the country , the peculiarities of the climate , its endemic diseases , the manners of the inhabitants , laws , usages , and ...
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... familiar friends , and had frequent opportunities of ascertaining that many assertions made by the traveller , like those of Herodotus , were confirmed by subsequent ob- servation and examination . But it was Bruce's peculiar character ...
... familiar friends , and had frequent opportunities of ascertaining that many assertions made by the traveller , like those of Herodotus , were confirmed by subsequent ob- servation and examination . But it was Bruce's peculiar character ...
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... familiar intercourse . This was the Ambassador from the East India Company to the court of Ava , during the government of Sir John Shore , afterwards Lord Teignmouth . Before this mission , our geographical knowledge of Ava , and the ...
... familiar intercourse . This was the Ambassador from the East India Company to the court of Ava , during the government of Sir John Shore , afterwards Lord Teignmouth . Before this mission , our geographical knowledge of Ava , and the ...
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... . amusement . With this last traveller the intercourse appears to have been frequent and familiar , and it should seem that he had been consulted on the subject of one on of the most curious and interesting works in our CHAPTER XIII. ...
... . amusement . With this last traveller the intercourse appears to have been frequent and familiar , and it should seem that he had been consulted on the subject of one on of the most curious and interesting works in our CHAPTER XIII. ...
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Abyssinia acquaintance afterwards agreeable ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE amiable anecdote appears became better Bishop Bishop of Landaff Bookseller brother certainly CHAP CHAPTER character circumstances communicated connection considerable considered conversation dignity distinguished eccentric enim excited exercise facetious familiar feelings fortune gentleman Greek Herodotus honest honour house of Medici humble humour individuals introduced Khorasan kind knowledge labour Lacryma Christi learning less literary lived Lord Lord Shelburne manners manuscript means ment merit mihi mind never nihil noble numerous object observed obtained occasion particular parties Pegu perhaps Persian person personage poet political popular Porson PORSONIAN Prebendal stall present printed profes profession published quæ quam quod racter rank reader Recollections remarkable respect scholar Sexagenarian sort surprize Sylvanus Urban talents taste Tebriz thing Tibet tion traveller venerable verse VIRG volumes Wilkes writer СНАР
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Página 355 - 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 352 - 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 384 - 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 349 - 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 332 - 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 346 - Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página 381 - » In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper, or the morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Página 378 - 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 383 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.