The Lady's Weekly Miscellany, Volume 11John Clough, 1810 |
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... manner of living gives occasion , it is of the greatest importance that I should leave them in their error , and this very error , which on the one hand is so useful to me , covers me with shame . I am a prey to the most cruel despair ...
... manner of living gives occasion , it is of the greatest importance that I should leave them in their error , and this very error , which on the one hand is so useful to me , covers me with shame . I am a prey to the most cruel despair ...
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... manners far from resembling ugly , cross , old , disagreeable and jeal- Ous Monsters , who think by confining to secure ; a wife , it is his maxim to treat as a bosom friend and not as a play thing , or menial slave , the woman of his ...
... manners far from resembling ugly , cross , old , disagreeable and jeal- Ous Monsters , who think by confining to secure ; a wife , it is his maxim to treat as a bosom friend and not as a play thing , or menial slave , the woman of his ...
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... manners had nothin agreeable in them ; he was roug and often silent ; I also thougi I had remarked that my wife aj In the vicinity of my domain , there dwelt a man of rather mean extraction , who possessed some talents under which he ...
... manners had nothin agreeable in them ; he was roug and often silent ; I also thougi I had remarked that my wife aj In the vicinity of my domain , there dwelt a man of rather mean extraction , who possessed some talents under which he ...
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... manners and be wise- • I'm sick of nonsense , noise and wrangling . Let squabblers in your hall beneath , Display such want of grace and knowledge , Wasting their precious time and breath , · Debating on a Drug or College- Altho ' this ...
... manners and be wise- • I'm sick of nonsense , noise and wrangling . Let squabblers in your hall beneath , Display such want of grace and knowledge , Wasting their precious time and breath , · Debating on a Drug or College- Altho ' this ...
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... manner which the queen might interpret as favourably as she pleased ; and presented to her a paper containing the accusations against herself , to which nothing was wanting to complete the tri- uph of her enemies but her sig- nature ...
... manner which the queen might interpret as favourably as she pleased ; and presented to her a paper containing the accusations against herself , to which nothing was wanting to complete the tri- uph of her enemies but her sig- nature ...
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Page 358 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling; — 'tis too horrible!
Page 224 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 351 - Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will and...
Page 415 - ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which he died unknown : His name...
Page 106 - The attendant angel is just about to leave the threshold, and ascend to heaven. And shall he ascend and not bear with him the news of one sinner, among all this multitude, reclaimed from the error of his ways...
Page 415 - His bliss and woe— a smile, a tear ! Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all. He...
Page 351 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Page 351 - Mis-spending all thy precious hours Thy glorious, youthful prime! Alternate Follies take the sway; Licentious Passions burn; Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, That Man was made to mourn.
Page 224 - How bright the unchanging morn appears ! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, How blest the righteous when he dies ! 779 L.
Page 362 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?