The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... thought . No one thinks of addreffing his mistress in the lan- guage of mirth . All our poets , excepting Cowley and Waller , have treated plaintively of love : thefe were frange exceptions - Cowley , a fanciful metaphyfician , and ...
... thought . No one thinks of addreffing his mistress in the lan- guage of mirth . All our poets , excepting Cowley and Waller , have treated plaintively of love : thefe were frange exceptions - Cowley , a fanciful metaphyfician , and ...
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... thought of his commiffion , ' adds the great prelate , " I think of human life in ge neral ; good brown ocre is the complexion of it . " STERNE . 15 I CANNOT omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and master : —He had the ceiling of ...
... thought of his commiffion , ' adds the great prelate , " I think of human life in ge neral ; good brown ocre is the complexion of it . " STERNE . 15 I CANNOT omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and master : —He had the ceiling of ...
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... thought- lefsly embellifhed her . Cool examination in these af- fairs , often breaks the chains , and loofens the victim from his bonds . But fuppofe , upon enquiry , he finds the ob- ject of his affection to be what he fuppofes - every ...
... thought- lefsly embellifhed her . Cool examination in these af- fairs , often breaks the chains , and loofens the victim from his bonds . But fuppofe , upon enquiry , he finds the ob- ject of his affection to be what he fuppofes - every ...
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... thought more advantageous to fell them young , than to keep them three years without profit , and at fome hazard . This may anfwer in a country where fat mutton is of little value ; but the fhepherds of the Alps would be of a very ...
... thought more advantageous to fell them young , than to keep them three years without profit , and at fome hazard . This may anfwer in a country where fat mutton is of little value ; but the fhepherds of the Alps would be of a very ...
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... Thoughts , and Paradife Loft . At a little diftance from it were the huts of a few poor fishermen , who fupported their numerous children by their precarious labour . In thefe little huts fhe fre- quently rested , and denied herself ...
... Thoughts , and Paradife Loft . At a little diftance from it were the huts of a few poor fishermen , who fupported their numerous children by their precarious labour . In thefe little huts fhe fre- quently rested , and denied herself ...
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Page 67 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 16 - Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian...
Page 29 - Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.
Page 14 - ... had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment.
Page 139 - ... the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the tendency of his nature inclined him much more to blind partiality, than to ill-founded prejudice.
Page 300 - Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of " Mercury, and though we might be dragged along without "them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily, and
Page 234 - As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.
Page 410 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 283 - They reckon ten months in the year, fome of which are longer and fome mor'ter ; for they do not divide them by the changes of the moon, but by the order of particular occurrences that happen in thofe regions ; they commonly divide our year into two, fo that winter is one year, and fummer another : the fummer year begins in May, and the winter in November. They do not...
Page 234 - Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.