The Lady's Weekly Miscellany, Volume 11John Clough, 1810 |
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... virtue of their parents has preserved them from forced mar- riage , and left them at large to chuse their own path in the laby- rinth of life , they have made any great advantage of their liberty : they commonly take the opportu- nity ...
... virtue of their parents has preserved them from forced mar- riage , and left them at large to chuse their own path in the laby- rinth of life , they have made any great advantage of their liberty : they commonly take the opportu- nity ...
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... virtue , if they strike the brow of the proud tyrants of the earth , I mentally exclaimed , of the law- person was actually dead . Among less oppressors of nations , they de hearing proper persons accompa- nied her to investigate the ...
... virtue , if they strike the brow of the proud tyrants of the earth , I mentally exclaimed , of the law- person was actually dead . Among less oppressors of nations , they de hearing proper persons accompa- nied her to investigate the ...
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... virtue , to which they paid the greatest homage . These encomiums charmed me , yet must confess that they struck me less forcibly than her beauty , - Combining all that I had heard of the poverty of her situation , with the detestable ...
... virtue , to which they paid the greatest homage . These encomiums charmed me , yet must confess that they struck me less forcibly than her beauty , - Combining all that I had heard of the poverty of her situation , with the detestable ...
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... virtues than her charms ; and so earnest am I in my entreaties , that your accep- tance or refusal will decide the happiness or misery of my life .'- My refusal , ' said he , that you surely do not fear . ' What ! has- tily rejoined I ...
... virtues than her charms ; and so earnest am I in my entreaties , that your accep- tance or refusal will decide the happiness or misery of my life .'- My refusal , ' said he , that you surely do not fear . ' What ! has- tily rejoined I ...
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... virtues , peared civil to him merely on m and for the felicity I enjoyed by the gift of his lovely daughter ... virtue ; these endowments far surpass all rich- es . ' The old man's eyes were fil- led with tears ; he took my hand ...
... virtues , peared civil to him merely on m and for the felicity I enjoyed by the gift of his lovely daughter ... virtue ; these endowments far surpass all rich- es . ' The old man's eyes were fil- led with tears ; he took my hand ...
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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?