Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate MoralityT.N. Longman, 1796 - Anecdotes |
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... objects whofe knowledge may convey inftruction to us . Depart , fon , and think particularly in your excurfions of making no valuabie acquifition , but of a true friend . friend . Sacrifice , if neceffary , in that view ( 18 )
... objects whofe knowledge may convey inftruction to us . Depart , fon , and think particularly in your excurfions of making no valuabie acquifition , but of a true friend . friend . Sacrifice , if neceffary , in that view ( 18 )
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... objects , and the thoughtleffnefs with which he floats along the ftream of time , I funk into a flumber amidst my meditations , and on a fudden found my my ears filled with the tumult of labour , the ( 24 ) THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. ...
... objects , and the thoughtleffnefs with which he floats along the ftream of time , I funk into a flumber amidst my meditations , and on a fudden found my my ears filled with the tumult of labour , the ( 24 ) THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. ...
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... controul , And on their objects rivet all the foul : Thy light'ning far outftrips the poet's race ; E'en Otway's numbers yield to Siddons ' face . F Long Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn ( 33 )
... controul , And on their objects rivet all the foul : Thy light'ning far outftrips the poet's race ; E'en Otway's numbers yield to Siddons ' face . F Long Long after thou haft clos'd the glowing scene ; Withdrawn ( 33 )
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... object of terror does , feems to yield and recede from its approach , and gives room for fancy to form a flender fpecious hope , which floats in the void , unlefs crufhed by a clofe examination . But it is furely ftrange , that beings ...
... object of terror does , feems to yield and recede from its approach , and gives room for fancy to form a flender fpecious hope , which floats in the void , unlefs crufhed by a clofe examination . But it is furely ftrange , that beings ...
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... object , if viewed at a prodigious diftance , will not affect our perceptions fo ftrongly as a much fmaller one that is near to us . Thus it is as to Death , and the comparatively little ob- jects which occur in the courfe of our lives ...
... object , if viewed at a prodigious diftance , will not affect our perceptions fo ftrongly as a much fmaller one that is near to us . Thus it is as to Death , and the comparatively little ob- jects which occur in the courfe of our lives ...
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