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... fall into this error of life , as well as the misfor- tune it must needs be to languish under such pres- sures . As for myself , my natural aversion to that sort of conversation which makes a figure with the generality of mankind ...
... fall into this error of life , as well as the misfor- tune it must needs be to languish under such pres- sures . As for myself , my natural aversion to that sort of conversation which makes a figure with the generality of mankind ...
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... falling - out of friends , or such other terrible disasters , to which the life of man is exposed ; in cases of this nature , Eucrate was the patron ; and enjoyed this part of the royal favour so much without being envied , that it was ...
... falling - out of friends , or such other terrible disasters , to which the life of man is exposed ; in cases of this nature , Eucrate was the patron ; and enjoyed this part of the royal favour so much without being envied , that it was ...
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... Falling in the other day at a victualling - house near the house of peers , I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar , that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window , if she did not bring up more mild ...
... Falling in the other day at a victualling - house near the house of peers , I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar , that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window , if she did not bring up more mild ...
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... falling in love when she is about threescore , if she cannot satisfy her doubts and scruples before that time . There is a kind of latter spring , that sometimes gets into the blood of an old woman , and turns her into a very odd sort ...
... falling in love when she is about threescore , if she cannot satisfy her doubts and scruples before that time . There is a kind of latter spring , that sometimes gets into the blood of an old woman , and turns her into a very odd sort ...
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... fall asleep between them , and by that means dis- grace them for ever . But alas ! this was impossible ; could I have been disposed to it , they would have prevented me by several little ill - natured caresses and endearments which they ...
... fall asleep between them , and by that means dis- grace them for ever . But alas ! this was impossible ; could I have been disposed to it , they would have prevented me by several little ill - natured caresses and endearments which they ...
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Page 118 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet de chambre for his brother: his butler is gray-headed ; his groom is one of the gravest men that I have ever seen ; and his coachman has the...
Page 367 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 370 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Page 386 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 193 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 144 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 137 - The knight, seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass, and himself in a manner shut out of his own house, upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open, and exorcised by his chaplain, who lay in every room one after another, and by that means dissipated the fears which had so long reigned in the family.
Page 119 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Page 118 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Page 127 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.