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... passed his time in all the luxury of idleness , who had glad- ded him with unenvied merriment , and whom he could at once enjoy and despise . You may perhaps think this account of those who are distinguished for their good - humour ...
... passed his time in all the luxury of idleness , who had glad- ded him with unenvied merriment , and whom he could at once enjoy and despise . You may perhaps think this account of those who are distinguished for their good - humour ...
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... passed his life in the duties of his profession , with great reputa- tion for his knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons . The parson made no dif- ficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert ...
... passed his life in the duties of his profession , with great reputa- tion for his knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons . The parson made no dif- ficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert ...
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... passed their lives amidst the levities of sportive idleness , or the warm professions of drunken friendship ; and fed their hopes with the promises of wretches , whom their precepts had taught to scoff at truth . But when fools had ...
... passed their lives amidst the levities of sportive idleness , or the warm professions of drunken friendship ; and fed their hopes with the promises of wretches , whom their precepts had taught to scoff at truth . But when fools had ...
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... passed their lives with publick honours , and been distinguished by ex- traordinary performances . It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness except by a few . That merit which gives greatness and renown , diffuses its influence ...
... passed their lives with publick honours , and been distinguished by ex- traordinary performances . It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness except by a few . That merit which gives greatness and renown , diffuses its influence ...
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... passed my youth with very little dis- turbance from passions and appetites ; and having no pleasure in the company of boys and girls , who talked of plays , politicks , fashions , or love , I car- ried on my enquiries with incessant ...
... passed my youth with very little dis- turbance from passions and appetites ; and having no pleasure in the company of boys and girls , who talked of plays , politicks , fashions , or love , I car- ried on my enquiries with incessant ...
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Page 441 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 136 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 104 - ... harmonically conjoined, and, by consequence, the flow of the verse is longer interrupted, It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh. This, with regard to our language, is evidently true, not because monosyllables cannot compose harmony, but because our monosyllables being of Teutonick original, or formed by contraction, commonly begin and end with consonants, as, • Every lower faculty Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste.
Page 443 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 435 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Page 148 - I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Page 120 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Page 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 94 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 105 - ... to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence...