Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 Seiten |
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... poor dear Mary , and the impossibility there was of any assistance prolong- ing her dear life , it is an event rather to be desired than not ; and to myself , I confess , it is matter of relief to hear that her agonized sufferings are ...
... poor dear Mary , and the impossibility there was of any assistance prolong- ing her dear life , it is an event rather to be desired than not ; and to myself , I confess , it is matter of relief to hear that her agonized sufferings are ...
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... poor Mary , in giving five shillings each to the following persons - Mrs. Stead , Susan Cox , and Mary Cox , as also to the poorest and elderly persons in Weobley , whom you think objects of charity . This trait of pious benevolence ...
... poor Mary , in giving five shillings each to the following persons - Mrs. Stead , Susan Cox , and Mary Cox , as also to the poorest and elderly persons in Weobley , whom you think objects of charity . This trait of pious benevolence ...
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... Poor John Taylor is , I fear , upon his last legs : when last I saw him he was breaking up very fast . I hope his circumstances will afford some provision for his children . This is a life of affliction and disappointment : when a man ...
... Poor John Taylor is , I fear , upon his last legs : when last I saw him he was breaking up very fast . I hope his circumstances will afford some provision for his children . This is a life of affliction and disappointment : when a man ...
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... it . The unheard of severity lately ( and most unjustly ) exercised towards my poor brother , has , I must own , stimulated me to advocate his cause : not that I will attempt to exonerate him from blame for the blundering system 39.
... it . The unheard of severity lately ( and most unjustly ) exercised towards my poor brother , has , I must own , stimulated me to advocate his cause : not that I will attempt to exonerate him from blame for the blundering system 39.
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... poor man , is much altered ; he seldom goes from home , his rupture is enlarged , and his legs swell very much . Mr. Benjamin Shaw , Mr. C. Palmer , a few friends , and myself , attended her remains to the meeting in Maze Pond ; where I ...
... poor man , is much altered ; he seldom goes from home , his rupture is enlarged , and his legs swell very much . Mr. Benjamin Shaw , Mr. C. Palmer , a few friends , and myself , attended her remains to the meeting in Maze Pond ; where I ...
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acquainted affectionate Father affliction afford agreeable amiable assure attention B. O. To CAPTAIN B. O. To MASTER B. O. To MISS believe BENJAMIN OAKLEY BLACKHEATH BRITTON brother Captain Butcher CHARTER HOUSE CHRISTIANA Clapham Common comfort consolation DEAR ADRIANA DEAR BENJAMIN dear boy DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR December December 15 December 28 December 9 delight dine distress Drury Drury Lane Theatre duty EDWARD YOUNGE esteem express Farran favour feel friendship girls give glad to find happiness Harrogate heart honour hope Horsley indulgence JOHN BUTCHER Kean kind letter loving Father mamma March 22 melancholy mind MISS OAKLEY morning mother night November November 22 o'clock occasion offer Parrott pleasure poor pray proud R. R. OAKLEY Ravenhill received recollection regret request RICHARD OAKLEY Royal Exchange satisfaction sincerely sisters Tavistock Place tell thank theatre thing Tooting Lodge town WEOBLY wish
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Seite 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Seite 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Seite 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Seite 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Seite 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Seite 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Seite 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.