Monte Video: Or, The Officer's Wife and Her Sister, Band 1

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M. Carey, 1816
 

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Seite 119 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Seite 192 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Seite 20 - The kindest and the happiest p"air Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Seite 36 - ... of the person who confided in him. Discretion does not only show itself in words, but in all the circumstances of action, and is like an under-agent of Providence to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed...
Seite 223 - Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Seite 184 - Where am I ? surely paradise is round me ! Sweets planted by the hand of Heaven grow here, And every sense is full of thy perfection. To hear thee speak might calm a madman's frenzy, Till by attention he forgot his sorrows ; But to behold thy eyes, thy amazing beauties, Might make him rage again with love, as I do.
Seite 102 - Discretion is the Perfection of Reason, and a Guide to us in all the Duties of Life: Cunning is a kind of Instinct, that only looks out after our immediate Interest and Welfare.
Seite 176 - ... the waters, may put out again to sea, and be blessed with a prosperous voyage. Nor is the sea more wonderful in itself than it is beneficial to mankind. From its surface vapours are continually arising, drawn upwards by the heat of the sun, which by degrees, formed into clouds, drop...
Seite 60 - Tis poor relying on another's fame ; For, take the pillars but away, and all The superstructure must in ruins fall.— Stepney.
Seite 110 - Fates, without my pow'r, shall be without my care. This let me crave, since near your grove the road To hell lies open, and the dark abode Which Acheron surrounds, th...

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