The wanderer: or, A collection of original tales and essays, Band 1 |
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... steps might wander wild ; " And Disappointment , in these lonely bounds , " Find balm to soothe her bitter rankling wounds : " Here heart - struck Grief might heav'nward stretch ❝ her scan , " And injur'd Worth forget and pardon man ...
... steps might wander wild ; " And Disappointment , in these lonely bounds , " Find balm to soothe her bitter rankling wounds : " Here heart - struck Grief might heav'nward stretch ❝ her scan , " And injur'd Worth forget and pardon man ...
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... steps down into the happy valley , and pursued my way towards the village , in order to seek for an habitation for the night . It was not yet dark ; as I drew near the church , that stood about an hundred yards from the village , I per ...
... steps down into the happy valley , and pursued my way towards the village , in order to seek for an habitation for the night . It was not yet dark ; as I drew near the church , that stood about an hundred yards from the village , I per ...
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... steps occasioned amongst the dead leaves with which our pathway was plentifully bestrewed , and the hollow hootings of an owl , that wheeled her airy flight around the neighbouring steeple , whose clock was then telling the tenth hour ...
... steps occasioned amongst the dead leaves with which our pathway was plentifully bestrewed , and the hollow hootings of an owl , that wheeled her airy flight around the neighbouring steeple , whose clock was then telling the tenth hour ...
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Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) : · flight of steps leading up to the hall - door , at which my new host knocked for admittance , but no one came he repeated it again and again , with ad- ditional vehemence , without the desired ...
Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) : · flight of steps leading up to the hall - door , at which my new host knocked for admittance , but no one came he repeated it again and again , with ad- ditional vehemence , without the desired ...
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... steps will never again ramble amid your beauties ; never more shall I steal your choicest flowers to deck my bosom , that has so often glowed with silent rapture as I viewed these scenes of my youthful pleasure . The hidden warbler of ...
... steps will never again ramble amid your beauties ; never more shall I steal your choicest flowers to deck my bosom , that has so often glowed with silent rapture as I viewed these scenes of my youthful pleasure . The hidden warbler of ...
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Abdallah able acquainted adventure affection Agra Ahmedabad amidst amongst amusement Andalusia appeared ardour Arrah arrived beams beautiful beheld blooming Bombay bosom captain cavern CHARLES FOTHERGILL charms contemplate countenance dare dark daugh dear death degree delight desolated wilderness dreadful dulcinea earth endeavour eternal eyes favoured fear female finer feelings flowers Frederick gentleman girl gloom glowing grief happiness heart heav'n Hibernian Hindoos honour hope hour human imagination immortal bard India Indian shore interesting JAMES WALLIS Jasus Julia labour luxuriant mankind manner Matlock melan melancholy mighty mind neral never night o'er object once painful Parsees passions Persian language person pleasure possessed present render scarcely scene shade shew silent smiled soft solitude soon sorrow soul stood storms suffered Surat sweet tears thee thou thought tion trees ture Tyburn unfortunate vast vice WANDERER whilst wretched youth
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Seite 78 - In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen " Looks through the horizontal misty air " Shorn of hi* beams, or from behind the moon.
Seite 7 - And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; " Careless their merits or their faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began. " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, " And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side;
Seite 6 - he was, to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, " Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r,
Seite 183 - I cannot tell what you and other men " Think of this life ; but, for my single self, " I had as lief not be, as live to be " In awe of such a thing as I myself. " I was born free as Caesar ; so were you: • " We both have fed as well j and we can both " Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Seite 7 - Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; " The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, " Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away, " Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Seite 6 - By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; ** Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. " His house was known to all the vagrant train;
Seite 130 - O curse of marriage, " That we can call these delicate creatures ours, " And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad» " And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, "Than keep a corner in the thing
Seite 123 - Teach nothing but to name his tools. " But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; "A Babylonish dialect, " Which learned pedants much affect : " It was a party-colour'd dress " Of patch'd and pieball'd languages: " 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, " Like fustian heretofore on satin:
Seite 95 - Withal, as large a charter as the wind, " To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have: " And they that are most galled with my folly, " They most must laugh.'