The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... present themselves , must be an object of conjecture , but the peculiari- ties concerning him are very striking , and the changes of his character and conduct so very con- siderable , that it may not be unamusing to some readers , to ...
... present themselves , must be an object of conjecture , but the peculiari- ties concerning him are very striking , and the changes of his character and conduct so very con- siderable , that it may not be unamusing to some readers , to ...
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... present occasion , and expressed the hope that he would at least wait till some more suitable opportunity presented itself . But they mistook their man ; this was with him an additional motive for persevering in his first intentions ...
... present occasion , and expressed the hope that he would at least wait till some more suitable opportunity presented itself . But they mistook their man ; this was with him an additional motive for persevering in his first intentions ...
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... present a heavy , stupid , consequential fellow , who held some city office , and who often , in the course of the conversation , treated Wilkes with much rudeness . It seemed that Wilkes and and Boswell had met in Italy , and had ...
... present a heavy , stupid , consequential fellow , who held some city office , and who often , in the course of the conversation , treated Wilkes with much rudeness . It seemed that Wilkes and and Boswell had met in Italy , and had ...
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... presents a very picturesque and interesting picture . ” Why so it perhaps may , " returned Wilkes , " but when I was there , the wind was in my face , and it brought with it such a confounded stink , that I was obliged to keep my ...
... presents a very picturesque and interesting picture . ” Why so it perhaps may , " returned Wilkes , " but when I was there , the wind was in my face , and it brought with it such a confounded stink , that I was obliged to keep my ...
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... present , on seeing the accident , only exclaimed , " Take care of his watch . " In the riots of the year 1780 , which at the same time endangered and disgraced the metropolis , Wilkes was lamenting the ungovernable violence of a London ...
... present , on seeing the accident , only exclaimed , " Take care of his watch . " In the riots of the year 1780 , which at the same time endangered and disgraced the metropolis , Wilkes was lamenting the ungovernable violence of a London ...
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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 378 - 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 360 - ... quisnam igitur liber? sapiens sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores 85 fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres, atque rotundus, externi ne quid valeat per leve morari, in quem manca ruit semper fortuna, potesne ex his ut proprium quid noscere?
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 340 - Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
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 375 - » 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 377 - 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.
Página 384 - ... latter days were spent in retirement from those busy scenes, in which he had formerly borne a conspicuous part. In the last two years of his life, he amused himself with the composition of the preceding Memoirs, which display an extensive knowledge of the events and the characters of a former day. Many of the personages there described, like the hand which records them, are now in the dust, and have left their name only and their memories behind.