Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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... Once , and once only , a little gleam seemed to open upon their melancholy . In Oxford , that beautiful Athens - where groves , and gardens , and towers , and cathedrals , and consecrated walks by mead or river , are mingled in delight ...
... Once , and once only , a little gleam seemed to open upon their melancholy . In Oxford , that beautiful Athens - where groves , and gardens , and towers , and cathedrals , and consecrated walks by mead or river , are mingled in delight ...
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... once said had so in- terested and enlivened your old northern hall . Inter- ested he may , but I should think he never could have enlivened it . At least we are all puzzled about him here , considering his station in the world , the ...
... once said had so in- terested and enlivened your old northern hall . Inter- ested he may , but I should think he never could have enlivened it . At least we are all puzzled about him here , considering his station in the world , the ...
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... once so ab- sorbed him , was deeply and sincerely plunged in those subjects on which they had so cruelly differed 5 and if his object , as the good President said , was truth , he could not , as Evelyn hoped , long resist its ...
... once so ab- sorbed him , was deeply and sincerely plunged in those subjects on which they had so cruelly differed 5 and if his object , as the good President said , was truth , he could not , as Evelyn hoped , long resist its ...
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... once to him , who was in alarm at his only eyeing the sign of the Royal Oak , hanging half way up a hill , embosomed in wood . " But I shall gain ten years of existence , " replied Evelyn , " so put up the horses . " John knew there was ...
... once to him , who was in alarm at his only eyeing the sign of the Royal Oak , hanging half way up a hill , embosomed in wood . " But I shall gain ten years of existence , " replied Evelyn , " so put up the horses . " John knew there was ...
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... ” SHAKSPEARE . " AH ! que c'est une superbe ville qu ' Orléans ! " This is the exclamation of every Frenchman as he approaches it ; and the epithet is for once not unde- served . Orleans rises from the water in a little TREMAINE . 43.
... ” SHAKSPEARE . " AH ! que c'est une superbe ville qu ' Orléans ! " This is the exclamation of every Frenchman as he approaches it ; and the epithet is for once not unde- served . Orleans rises from the water in a little TREMAINE . 43.
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Almighty answered Evelyn answered Tremaine argument asked Evelyn asked Tremaine beautiful believe better Bolingbroke brain brute called cause certainly CHAP chateau Cicero confess consequence continued Evelyn continued Tremaine creation creature cried Evelyn cried Tremaine crime dear death Deity demonstration difficulty divine Doctor doubt Epicurus Evelyn Hall evil exclaimed existence father fear feeling free-will Georgina give happiness heart Heaven hope horror immortal Jules laws least Lisette Lucretius maine matter mean ment merely mind moral motion murder nature never object observed Evelyn observed Tremaine opinion Orleans pause perhaps perpetual philosopher physics Place d'Orleans pleasure proof prove Providence pursued Evelyn question reason rejoined religion replied Evelyn replied Tremaine returned Evelyn returned Tremaine scepticism Scopas seemed Sennacherib sense SHAKSPEARE soul spirit suppose supposition sure tell thing thought tion Tremaine allowed true truth Voltaire whole wish wonderful
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Page 290 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 289 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 335 - Imagine howling ! —'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 203 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Page 257 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 49 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? or whither shall I go then from thy presence ? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 280 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 289 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
Page 281 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 271 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.