The Sexagenarian: Or, The Recollections of a Literary Life ...F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 |
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... young lady was walking one morning on the Steyne , at Brighton , when she encountered our facetious friend . You see , Mr. * * * , I am come out for a little sun and air . You had better , Madam , get a little husband first . The 2 The ...
... young lady was walking one morning on the Steyne , at Brighton , when she encountered our facetious friend . You see , Mr. * * * , I am come out for a little sun and air . You had better , Madam , get a little husband first . The 2 The ...
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... Young and in- experienced , dazzled with the name of liberty , con- founded by subtleties of argument , which , if he could not accurately analyze , he was still unable to confute ; and lastly , with the prospect placed before him of ...
... Young and in- experienced , dazzled with the name of liberty , con- founded by subtleties of argument , which , if he could not accurately analyze , he was still unable to confute ; and lastly , with the prospect placed before him of ...
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... young and inexperienced man , should in some de- gree be warped . That he should in some measure feel a favourable bias towards sentiments and pre- judices , which he heard perpetually avowed by mary whom he esteemed , and vindicated ...
... young and inexperienced man , should in some de- gree be warped . That he should in some measure feel a favourable bias towards sentiments and pre- judices , which he heard perpetually avowed by mary whom he esteemed , and vindicated ...
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... of a speculative kind , and lose the wreck of his fortune ? The traveller had a brother of some waywardness also , but who was very amiable , and , unlike the former , former , of the most unoffending manners . When young 53.
... of a speculative kind , and lose the wreck of his fortune ? The traveller had a brother of some waywardness also , but who was very amiable , and , unlike the former , former , of the most unoffending manners . When young 53.
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... young , he had not a mere liking , but an absolute passion for theatrical amusements . He in a manner attached himself to the provincial company of the place where he resided , accompanied them to what- ever place they went , never ...
... young , he had not a mere liking , but an absolute passion for theatrical amusements . He in a manner attached himself to the provincial company of the place where he resided , accompanied them to what- ever place they went , never ...
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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...