Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 5author, 1797 |
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... should poll ; adding , " I am the Lord Chancellor of this realm . " The mayor , regarding him with a look of the highest contempt , replied , " Your ungen- tlemanlike behaviour convinces me , it is impoffi- B 2 ble you the Chancellor ...
... should poll ; adding , " I am the Lord Chancellor of this realm . " The mayor , regarding him with a look of the highest contempt , replied , " Your ungen- tlemanlike behaviour convinces me , it is impoffi- B 2 ble you the Chancellor ...
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... should never disclose the fecrets of one friend to another . They are fecret depofits which do not belong to us , nor have we any right to make use of them . BON BON MOT of a Countryman . GENTLEMAN lately riding through (9) ...
... should never disclose the fecrets of one friend to another . They are fecret depofits which do not belong to us , nor have we any right to make use of them . BON BON MOT of a Countryman . GENTLEMAN lately riding through (9) ...
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... should chear my lone recess . In these sweet shades I'd pafs my harmless days In health , and chearfulness of mind , Bleft with a friend , in philofophic ease , True happiness I'd find ; The beauties of the fylvan fcene explore ; And ...
... should chear my lone recess . In these sweet shades I'd pafs my harmless days In health , and chearfulness of mind , Bleft with a friend , in philofophic ease , True happiness I'd find ; The beauties of the fylvan fcene explore ; And ...
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... should the angel of adverfity fmite you , ftill you fhall be happy . But that idea I eradicate from my mind ! Alla fhall ftrengthen your power ; and your subjects ' love defeat every attack of mis- fortune : your life fhall pafs away ...
... should the angel of adverfity fmite you , ftill you fhall be happy . But that idea I eradicate from my mind ! Alla fhall ftrengthen your power ; and your subjects ' love defeat every attack of mis- fortune : your life fhall pafs away ...
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... should they be remembered in their epitaphs ? And if thofe epitaphs contain lying trophies , they , furely , may be deemed rather infults than panegy- rics . Every eulogium upon a bad man deceased , is an affront to every good man alive ...
... should they be remembered in their epitaphs ? And if thofe epitaphs contain lying trophies , they , furely , may be deemed rather infults than panegy- rics . Every eulogium upon a bad man deceased , is an affront to every good man alive ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection againſt almoſt Amelia Amurath ANEC ANECDOTE anſwer aſked beauty becauſe beſt bleffing bofom caufe cauſe confequence confiderable converfation courſe daughter defign defire difpofition diſcovered eyes fafe faid fame father fatisfaction feemed fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferved feveral fhall fhort fhould fince fincerely firft firſt fituation fociety fome foon forrow fortune foul fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fupport fure gentleman greateſt happineſs happy heart herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe huſband itſelf juft lady laft laſt leaſt lefs loft marriage married ment mind moft Monf moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion paffed paffion Palemon Peliffon perfon pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poffeffion prefent promiſed purpoſe raiſed reafon refidence refpect ſee ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſtate ſtill tafte taſte thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion uſe vifit virtue whofe wife wiſhes Wormwood young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 208 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Seite 16 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Seite 207 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Seite 207 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Seite 142 - Conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings: New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.
Seite 6 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Seite 261 - And the red lightning, with a storm of hail, comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amaz'd, and tremble ! While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet. Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters Quick to devour them.
Seite 142 - Av'rice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains: He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands...
Seite 205 - When Solon and Lycurgus taught To moralize the human thought Of mad opinion's maze, To erring zeal they gave new laws, Thy charms, O Liberty, the cause That blends congenial rays.
Seite 285 - Tetzel, and afleed him, if he could fell him an indulgence before-hand for a certain crime, which he would not fpecify, and which he intended to commit. Tetzel faid, Yes ; provided they could agree upon the price. The bargain was ftruck, the money paid, and the • abfolution delivered in due form. Soon after this, the gentleman, knowing that Tetzel was going from Leipfic well loaded with...