Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 2 |
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... better to have kept the purfe , to fupply their wants , than to return it to fo ungrateful a perfon , who probably did not want the money it contained . To all her remarks and obfervations the Curate made no other reply , than that ...
... better to have kept the purfe , to fupply their wants , than to return it to fo ungrateful a perfon , who probably did not want the money it contained . To all her remarks and obfervations the Curate made no other reply , than that ...
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... better Horse . Gentleman of a certain county in England having married a young lady of confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always ...
... better Horse . Gentleman of a certain county in England having married a young lady of confider- able fortune , and with many other charms , yet finding , in a very fhort time , that she was of a high domineering fpirit , and always ...
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... better horfe . " " Well , my dear , ( replied the husband ) . if it must be fo " - " You must take an egg ( replied . the gentleman carter ) and I must take all my horfes back again , and endeavour to live happy with my wife . " A ...
... better horfe . " " Well , my dear , ( replied the husband ) . if it must be fo " - " You must take an egg ( replied . the gentleman carter ) and I must take all my horfes back again , and endeavour to live happy with my wife . " A ...
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... better , " replied the Bifhop , " do your duty in your parish , than play your monkey tricks at the chapel in ftreet . " On the admiffion of a certain modeft Divine to be the Bishop's chaplain , a lively inmate of the houfe obferved ...
... better , " replied the Bifhop , " do your duty in your parish , than play your monkey tricks at the chapel in ftreet . " On the admiffion of a certain modeft Divine to be the Bishop's chaplain , a lively inmate of the houfe obferved ...
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... better hold your tongue , you are talking about what you do not understand . " So patient was this admirable man , not only of thinking but of pain , that when in his laft illness , —that of the ftone , -his agony was fo great , that ...
... better hold your tongue , you are talking about what you do not understand . " So patient was this admirable man , not only of thinking but of pain , that when in his laft illness , —that of the ftone , -his agony was fo great , that ...
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Page 105 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 295 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 17 - See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good untaught will find : Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God ; Pursues that chain which links th...
Page 295 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 91 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 207 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Page 105 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Page 16 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 209 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 208 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.