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... youth , now with'ring on the ground ; " Another race the following spring supplies , " They fall successive , and successive rise ; " So generations in their course decay , " So flourish these , when those are past away ? And is man ...
... youth , now with'ring on the ground ; " Another race the following spring supplies , " They fall successive , and successive rise ; " So generations in their course decay , " So flourish these , when those are past away ? And is man ...
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... youth of about eighteen years of age , in life . Hitherto this promising youth had been left by his too in- dulgent father pretty much to himself , and al- though he had received an excellent education , was not brought up to any ...
... youth of about eighteen years of age , in life . Hitherto this promising youth had been left by his too in- dulgent father pretty much to himself , and al- though he had received an excellent education , was not brought up to any ...
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... heavenly eyes , whose pearly lustre added interest to beauty ; the delicious bloom of her finely turned cheek , and the inviting pout of her ruby lips ; oft raised eye a tender sigh in the breast of many a youth 36 THE WANDERER .
... heavenly eyes , whose pearly lustre added interest to beauty ; the delicious bloom of her finely turned cheek , and the inviting pout of her ruby lips ; oft raised eye a tender sigh in the breast of many a youth 36 THE WANDERER .
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... youth who dared not attempt the conquest of so fair a kingdom . Many days , and even weeks , had elapsed ere the tender assiduities of her guardian were able to revive her drooping spirits ; but at length they had the desired effect ...
... youth who dared not attempt the conquest of so fair a kingdom . Many days , and even weeks , had elapsed ere the tender assiduities of her guardian were able to revive her drooping spirits ; but at length they had the desired effect ...
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... wanted . But they were wholly unacquainted with the mind of this angelic girl . She still loved the imprudent youth with unabated and even increased affec- tion : well knowing the delicate situation in which he THE WANDERER . 45.
... wanted . But they were wholly unacquainted with the mind of this angelic girl . She still loved the imprudent youth with unabated and even increased affec- tion : well knowing the delicate situation in which he THE WANDERER . 45.
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Abdallah able acquainted adventure affection Agra Ahmedabad amidst amongst amusement Andalusia appeared ardour Arrah arrived beams beautiful beheld blooming Bombay bosom captain cavern CHARLES FOTHERGILL charms contemplate countenance dare dark daugh dear death degree delight desolated wilderness dreadful dulcinea earth endeavour eternal eyes favoured fear female finer feelings flowers Frederick gentleman girl gloom glowing grief happiness heart heav'n Hibernian Hindoos honour hope hour human imagination immortal bard India Indian shore interesting JAMES WALLIS Jasus Julia labour luxuriant mankind manner Matlock melan melancholy mighty mind neral never night o'er object once painful Parsees passions Persian language person pleasure possessed present render scarcely scene shade shew silent smiled soft solitude soon sorrow soul stood storms suffered Surat sweet tears thee thou thought tion trees ture Tyburn unfortunate vast vice WANDERER whilst wretched youth
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Page 78 - In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen " Looks through the horizontal misty air " Shorn of hi* beams, or from behind the moon.
Page 7 - And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; " Careless their merits or their faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began. " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, " And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side;
Page 6 - he was, to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, " Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r,
Page 183 - I cannot tell what you and other men " Think of this life ; but, for my single self, " I had as lief not be, as live to be " In awe of such a thing as I myself. " I was born free as Caesar ; so were you: • " We both have fed as well j and we can both " Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Page 7 - Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; " The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, " Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away, " Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Page 6 - By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; ** Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. " His house was known to all the vagrant train;
Page 130 - O curse of marriage, " That we can call these delicate creatures ours, " And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad» " And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, "Than keep a corner in the thing
Page 123 - Teach nothing but to name his tools. " But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; "A Babylonish dialect, " Which learned pedants much affect : " It was a party-colour'd dress " Of patch'd and pieball'd languages: " 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, " Like fustian heretofore on satin:
Page 95 - Withal, as large a charter as the wind, " To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have: " And they that are most galled with my folly, " They most must laugh.'