Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... happy Laplander , " fays Linnĉus , " 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 ...
... happy Laplander , " fays Linnĉus , " 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 ...
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... happy climate . Thou liveft as the birds of the wood . carest not to fow nor reap , for bounteous Provi- dence has fupplied thee in all thy wants . " So eloquent a panegyrift upon the Lapland life would make a capital figure upon an ...
... happy climate . Thou liveft as the birds of the wood . carest not to fow nor reap , for bounteous Provi- dence has fupplied thee in all thy wants . " So eloquent a panegyrift upon the Lapland life would make a capital figure upon an ...
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... happy , the enraptured Morad , though gentle as the doves of Circaffia , and humble as the Faquir who traverses the approaches of the facred temple of Mecca ; in the defence of his love , was fierce as the lion of mount Caucafus : and ...
... happy , the enraptured Morad , though gentle as the doves of Circaffia , and humble as the Faquir who traverses the approaches of the facred temple of Mecca ; in the defence of his love , was fierce as the lion of mount Caucafus : and ...
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... happy hours , beyond recov'ry fled ! What share I now " that can your lofs repay , " While o'er my mind thefe glooms of thought are fpread , And veil the light of life's meridian ray ? Is there no pow'r this darkness to remove ? The ...
... happy hours , beyond recov'ry fled ! What share I now " that can your lofs repay , " While o'er my mind thefe glooms of thought are fpread , And veil the light of life's meridian ray ? Is there no pow'r this darkness to remove ? The ...
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... ( fays Hortenfius ) people may talk of their Arcadias and their Elyfian fields , -I am fure we have spent a very happy fortnight in Columella's delightful retreat have ( 78 ) day, he contrived to pafs one fummer in tolera- ...
... ( fays Hortenfius ) people may talk of their Arcadias and their Elyfian fields , -I am fure we have spent a very happy fortnight in Columella's delightful retreat have ( 78 ) day, he contrived to pafs one fummer in tolera- ...
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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...