The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... travellers , half - way up the mountain : " Pray brother Wilkes , " said the citizen , " what is Lacryma Christi ? " The answer which is here omitted , joined the most perfect wit , to the grossest blasphemy . But neither would Wilkes ...
... travellers , half - way up the mountain : " Pray brother Wilkes , " said the citizen , " what is Lacryma Christi ? " The answer which is here omitted , joined the most perfect wit , to the grossest blasphemy . But neither would Wilkes ...
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... traveller , like those of Herodotus , were confirmed by subsequent ob- servation and examination . But it was Bruce's peculiar character , that if he discerned , or ever suspected any want of confidence in his auditors , he disdained ...
... traveller , like those of Herodotus , were confirmed by subsequent ob- servation and examination . But it was Bruce's peculiar character , that if he discerned , or ever suspected any want of confidence in his auditors , he disdained ...
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... travellers , that Bruce was never appointed to the government of Ras el Feel , nor indeed to any government at all . It may not , perhaps , be impertinent to sub- join , that among Bruce's manuscripts is a Coptic manuscript on Papyrus ...
... travellers , that Bruce was never appointed to the government of Ras el Feel , nor indeed to any government at all . It may not , perhaps , be impertinent to sub- join , that among Bruce's manuscripts is a Coptic manuscript on Papyrus ...
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... travellers , may , perhaps , be disputed ; but every one will allow , that as far as geographical knowledge is connected with voyages and travellers , there are few , if any , of modern times , to whom science is more indebted , than to ...
... travellers , may , perhaps , be disputed ; but every one will allow , that as far as geographical knowledge is connected with voyages and travellers , there are few , if any , of modern times , to whom science is more indebted , than to ...
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... traveller in all those parts of the world , which he has undertaken to illustrate , with confidence and security . The map of the peninsula of India is beyond all praise , and the elaborate dissertation by which it is accompanied , is ...
... traveller in all those parts of the world , which he has undertaken to illustrate , with confidence and security . The map of the peninsula of India is beyond all praise , and the elaborate dissertation by which it is accompanied , is ...
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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.