Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... fuch as , if they are not diffipated by useful employment , will foon overcast it with horrors , and imbitter life not only with those mi- series by which all earthly beings are really more or less tormented , but with those which do ...
... fuch as , if they are not diffipated by useful employment , will foon overcast it with horrors , and imbitter life not only with those mi- series by which all earthly beings are really more or less tormented , but with those which do ...
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... fuch acute- nefs of genius should be buried in an alehouse , took him away , and put him to school , and thereby enabled him to fhine as the firft comedian of his time ! ANECDOTE K OF KING ΡΕΡΙΝ . ING PEPIN of France , who flourished in ...
... fuch acute- nefs of genius should be buried in an alehouse , took him away , and put him to school , and thereby enabled him to fhine as the firft comedian of his time ! ANECDOTE K OF KING ΡΕΡΙΝ . ING PEPIN of France , who flourished in ...
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... fuch a ftroke on the bull , as left his head hanging by the upper part of its neck . The courtiers courage and were equally amazed at fuch ftrength ; and the King , with an heroic loftiness , faid to them , " David was a little man ...
... fuch a ftroke on the bull , as left his head hanging by the upper part of its neck . The courtiers courage and were equally amazed at fuch ftrength ; and the King , with an heroic loftiness , faid to them , " David was a little man ...
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... fuch a rooted fla- very and fear , that they have fcarce dared to be left alone all their lives , especially in the night . These ftories have made fuch a deep and frightful impreffion on their tender fancies , that it hath enervated ...
... fuch a rooted fla- very and fear , that they have fcarce dared to be left alone all their lives , especially in the night . These ftories have made fuch a deep and frightful impreffion on their tender fancies , that it hath enervated ...
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... fuch exercise in a state of uniform peace and tranquillity . Se- veral of our mental faculties would be dormant ; and we should even remain ignorant that we have fuch faculties . The people of Paraguay are defcribed as mere children in ...
... fuch exercise in a state of uniform peace and tranquillity . Se- veral of our mental faculties would be dormant ; and we should even remain ignorant that we have fuch faculties . The people of Paraguay are defcribed as mere children in ...
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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...