The Lady's Weekly Miscellany, Volume 11John Clough, 1810 |
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... present conduct , you will be all destroyed before the day of battle comes . " What is that to us ? we live upon death ; one can- not make his way but on the corpse of his companion . That is all I know . " " What an horrid || of May to ...
... present conduct , you will be all destroyed before the day of battle comes . " What is that to us ? we live upon death ; one can- not make his way but on the corpse of his companion . That is all I know . " " What an horrid || of May to ...
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... present has and as the present price is by some con- sidered too high , we are induced to reduce our terms to Two DoL- LARS per annum , or one dollar per volume . In doing this we hope we shall not be disappointed in our expectations ...
... present has and as the present price is by some con- sidered too high , we are induced to reduce our terms to Two DoL- LARS per annum , or one dollar per volume . In doing this we hope we shall not be disappointed in our expectations ...
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... presents ; I left no sophistical argument untried ; but she , calm in the midst of all my splendid offers , listened to me without displaying the smallest emotien , but with a mild firmness rejected my suit ; and which , far from having ...
... presents ; I left no sophistical argument untried ; but she , calm in the midst of all my splendid offers , listened to me without displaying the smallest emotien , but with a mild firmness rejected my suit ; and which , far from having ...
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... present a more terrific spectacle . Mournful shrieks , the rattling peals of cannon , the burst- threw down my arms , and attempt - ing thunder of the bombs deafen- ed our ears and hardened every . heart . Panting bodies lay in the ...
... present a more terrific spectacle . Mournful shrieks , the rattling peals of cannon , the burst- threw down my arms , and attempt - ing thunder of the bombs deafen- ed our ears and hardened every . heart . Panting bodies lay in the ...
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... present time . The extravagance of such delusions should warn all sober men against any thing which leads to them . It has been men- tioned as a question , whether leases or incorporations should go . for a longer time than the world ...
... present time . The extravagance of such delusions should warn all sober men against any thing which leads to them . It has been men- tioned as a question , whether leases or incorporations should go . for a longer time than the world ...
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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?