The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... personage of whom some detached and mutilated memorandums 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 ...
... personage of whom some detached and mutilated memorandums 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 ...
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... personage of still more eccentric and contradictory qualities . For immediately succeeding the above sketch , after the erasure of some lines , in which occur the words inconsistency , unprincipled , uncommonly good luck , we find the ...
... personage of still more eccentric and contradictory qualities . For immediately succeeding the above sketch , after the erasure of some lines , in which occur the words inconsistency , unprincipled , uncommonly good luck , we find the ...
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... personage . Born of highly respectable connections , he was educated at a public school , where his talents soon inspired respect , and his facetiousness and wit , ren- dered him exceedingly popular . This spirit never forsook him ...
... personage . Born of highly respectable connections , he was educated at a public school , where his talents soon inspired respect , and his facetiousness and wit , ren- dered him exceedingly popular . This spirit never forsook him ...
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... personages still re- main more or less detailed in our manuscript ; but the work appears already extended beyond perhaps the patience of many readers , and the task of se- lecting and arranging from a crude mass , is not the most ...
... personages still re- main more or less detailed in our manuscript ; but the work appears already extended beyond perhaps the patience of many readers , and the task of se- lecting and arranging from a crude mass , is not the most ...
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... personages he has left notes , which induce the disposition to believe , that he had , at one time , entertained the intention of writing something in a connected form , on the subject of the value of their different observations and ...
... personages he has left notes , which induce the disposition to believe , that he had , at one time , entertained the intention of writing something in a connected form , on the subject of the value of their different observations and ...
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Página 380 - 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 374 - 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 348 - 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 351 - 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 345 - 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 328 - 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 362 - ... 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 342 - Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página 377 - » 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...