Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2author, 1794 - 304 pages |
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... young , nor madly attached to the pleasures of the world , they left the Metropolis to spend the remainder of their days in retirement , without murmuring at the difpenfations of Pro- vidence . Not a little cheared , indeed , were they ...
... young , nor madly attached to the pleasures of the world , they left the Metropolis to spend the remainder of their days in retirement , without murmuring at the difpenfations of Pro- vidence . Not a little cheared , indeed , were they ...
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... young gentleman to their Fanny give them a great deal of pleasure . Mr. Hadley was a man of unexceptionable baracter ; but he had not a large fortune ; yet , as he was defperately enamoured with Fanny , and genteely offered to marry her ...
... young gentleman to their Fanny give them a great deal of pleasure . Mr. Hadley was a man of unexceptionable baracter ; but he had not a large fortune ; yet , as he was defperately enamoured with Fanny , and genteely offered to marry her ...
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... young lady of confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always contending to be mistress of him and his family , he was refolved to part ...
... young lady of confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always contending to be mistress of him and his family , he was refolved to part ...
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... young gentleman defired to be excufed , if he faid he was so far from giving his afsent to this af- sertion , that he thought himself more unhappy than any other man , as his wife had a spirit no way to be quelled ; and as most ...
... young gentleman defired to be excufed , if he faid he was so far from giving his afsent to this af- sertion , that he thought himself more unhappy than any other man , as his wife had a spirit no way to be quelled ; and as most ...
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... young married man , therefore , set out with great eagerness to get rid , as he thought , of his horfes and his wife . At the first house he came to , he heard a woman with a fhrill and angry voice , call to her husband to go to the ...
... young married man , therefore , set out with great eagerness to get rid , as he thought , of his horfes and his wife . At the first house he came to , he heard a woman with a fhrill and angry voice , call to her husband to go to the ...
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Page 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 295 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Page 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 207 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Page 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Page 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.