The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 12H.D. Symonds, 1801 |
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... late , much decreased . Many of the families , who followed her to Jerusalem , are no longer the dupes of her self - interested po- licy . Some still keep up the outward appearance of attachment to her ; while others have openly ...
... late , much decreased . Many of the families , who followed her to Jerusalem , are no longer the dupes of her self - interested po- licy . Some still keep up the outward appearance of attachment to her ; while others have openly ...
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... late ideas would perish in obli- vion ? Hen . No , Sir , the supposition was wrong . My constancy is unshaken - I love Elizabeth more than ever ! What youthful fancy promised , Pro- vidence has accomplished . Vain were my hopes , but ...
... late ideas would perish in obli- vion ? Hen . No , Sir , the supposition was wrong . My constancy is unshaken - I love Elizabeth more than ever ! What youthful fancy promised , Pro- vidence has accomplished . Vain were my hopes , but ...
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... old iron . " .... 8 .. Wit . - In a private conversation , the late Earl of Chatham asked Dr. Henniker , among other questions , how he defined wit ? The Doctor re- plied " My Lord , wit is like what a THE MONTHLY VISITOR , 35.
... old iron . " .... 8 .. Wit . - In a private conversation , the late Earl of Chatham asked Dr. Henniker , among other questions , how he defined wit ? The Doctor re- plied " My Lord , wit is like what a THE MONTHLY VISITOR , 35.
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... late Sir James Clerk , of Pennycuick , he stopped at a country barber's ' shop on the way , in order to have his hair dressed . The barber , who , although he had often heard of his customer , but was unacquainted with his person , did ...
... late Sir James Clerk , of Pennycuick , he stopped at a country barber's ' shop on the way , in order to have his hair dressed . The barber , who , although he had often heard of his customer , but was unacquainted with his person , did ...
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... late celebrated Lord Justice Clerk , has a son , who at the age of eleven or twelve rose to the rank of a Major . One morning his mother hearing a noise in the rursery , rang to know the cause of it , " It is only , " said the servant ...
... late celebrated Lord Justice Clerk , has a son , who at the age of eleven or twelve rose to the rank of a Major . One morning his mother hearing a noise in the rursery , rang to know the cause of it , " It is only , " said the servant ...
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Page 110 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 250 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 249 - Been hurt by th' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live. Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here much I ruminate, as much I may, With other views of men and manners now Than once, and others of a life to come...
Page 280 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 331 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...
Page 210 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 331 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 210 - Robert and his younger brother Gilbert had been grounded a little in English, before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences...
Page 344 - He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling, as an event likely to happen very soon ; and which gave him concern chiefly from leaving his four children so young and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying in of a fifth.
Page 111 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.