Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... fay , when the head was ftruck off , he took it up by the ear , whilft the lips were still trembling , and kiffed them : -a circum- stance of an extraordinary nature , and yet not incredible , confidering the peculiarities of his ...
... fay , when the head was ftruck off , he took it up by the ear , whilft the lips were still trembling , and kiffed them : -a circum- stance of an extraordinary nature , and yet not incredible , confidering the peculiarities of his ...
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... fay with the Dean of Derry , " I am fatisfied ! " A GENUINE ANECDOTE . Nobleman , who had lately , for the fecond time , entered into the holy state of matri- mony , with a lady of great accomplishments and fortune , has given the ...
... fay with the Dean of Derry , " I am fatisfied ! " A GENUINE ANECDOTE . Nobleman , who had lately , for the fecond time , entered into the holy state of matri- mony , with a lady of great accomplishments and fortune , has given the ...
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... fays Linnæus , " who , on the utmost verge of the habitable earth , thus liveft obfcure , in reft , content , and innocence . Thou fearest not the fcanty crop , nor ravages of war ; and thofe calamities , which waste pro- vinces and ...
... fays Linnæus , " who , on the utmost verge of the habitable earth , thus liveft obfcure , in reft , content , and innocence . Thou fearest not the fcanty crop , nor ravages of war ; and thofe calamities , which waste pro- vinces and ...
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... fay , call yourself to account for what is paft , cancel all the leagues you have made without the warrant of a religious confcience ; make a regular covenant with your God to ferve him with all your natural and fpiri- tual , inward and ...
... fay , call yourself to account for what is paft , cancel all the leagues you have made without the warrant of a religious confcience ; make a regular covenant with your God to ferve him with all your natural and fpiri- tual , inward and ...
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... fays Sterne , " I would find something in it to call forth my affections . If I could not do bet- ter , I would fasten them upon fome fweet myrtle , or feek fome melancholy cypress to connect myself to . I would court their fhade , and ...
... fays Sterne , " I would find something in it to call forth my affections . If I could not do bet- ter , I would fasten them upon fome fweet myrtle , or feek fome melancholy cypress to connect myself to . I would court their fhade , and ...
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Page 229 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 231 - Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 140 - cease your pother ; The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night And viewed it o'er by candle-light : I marked it well ; 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.' — ' Pray, sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue.
Page 191 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
Page 139 - gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Page 191 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 177 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Page 227 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 20 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...