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... suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtility of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my wonder . He seems to have the closeness of Henault without his constraiut . Mrs. Thrale ...
... suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtility of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my wonder . He seems to have the closeness of Henault without his constraiut . Mrs. Thrale ...
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... suppose that I have much to say . You have seen France yourself . From this place we are going to Rouen , and from Rouen to Paris , where Mr. Thrale designs to stay about five or six weeks . We have a regular recommendation to the ...
... suppose that I have much to say . You have seen France yourself . From this place we are going to Rouen , and from Rouen to Paris , where Mr. Thrale designs to stay about five or six weeks . We have a regular recommendation to the ...
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... suppose your fellow - traveller , Mr. Thrale , will return to London this week , to attend his duty in Parliament , and that you will not stay behind him . " you I send another parcel of Lord Hailes's Annals . ' I have undertaken to ...
... suppose your fellow - traveller , Mr. Thrale , will return to London this week , to attend his duty in Parliament , and that you will not stay behind him . " you I send another parcel of Lord Hailes's Annals . ' I have undertaken to ...
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... suppose , will grow ; the basis , I think , four inches across ; the skin folds like loose cloth doubled over his body , and across his hips ; a vast animal , though young ; as big , per- haps , as four oxen . - The young elephant ...
... suppose , will grow ; the basis , I think , four inches across ; the skin folds like loose cloth doubled over his body , and across his hips ; a vast animal , though young ; as big , per- haps , as four oxen . - The young elephant ...
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... suppose the large plates were not yet made . - The play - honse was very large . - The chapel I do not remember if we saw _We saw one chapel , but I am not certain whe ther there or at Trianon . - The foreign office paved with bricks ...
... suppose the large plates were not yet made . - The play - honse was very large . - The chapel I do not remember if we saw _We saw one chapel , but I am not certain whe ther there or at Trianon . - The foreign office paved with bricks ...
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Seite 785 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Seite 571 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Seite 753 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Seite 746 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Seite 569 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Seite 766 - Then collecting himself, and looking awful, to make us feel how he could impose restraint, and as it were searching his mind for a still more ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, "I say the woman was fundamentally sensible;" as if he had said, hear this now, and laugh if you dare.
Seite 797 - Almighty God, Father of all mercy, help me by thy grace, that I may, with humble and sincere thankfulness, remember the comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place ; and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when thou givest and when thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord ! have mercy upon me ! " To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family.
Seite 744 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Seite 591 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to — shut the gates...
Seite 744 - This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues for Milton to complain required impudence at least equal to his other powers ; Milton, whose warmest advocates must allow, that he never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence.