Continuation of the RamblerF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... advantages of living in a garret 118. The narrowness of fame 119. Tranquilla's account of her lovers , opposed to Hymenæus · 120. The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin 313 121. The dangers of imitation . The impropriety of ...
... advantages of living in a garret 118. The narrowness of fame 119. Tranquilla's account of her lovers , opposed to Hymenæus · 120. The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin 313 121. The dangers of imitation . The impropriety of ...
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... advantage from opposition and dissi- militude . He easily finds some faults in every human being , which he weighs against his own , and easily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own hand , and throws in or takes ...
... advantage from opposition and dissi- militude . He easily finds some faults in every human being , which he weighs against his own , and easily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own hand , and throws in or takes ...
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... advantages of his own dominions , one who possessed a country not remarkable for the grandeur of its cities , or the fertility of its soil , rose to speak , and the rest listened between pity and contempt , till he declared , in ho ...
... advantages of his own dominions , one who possessed a country not remarkable for the grandeur of its cities , or the fertility of its soil , rose to speak , and the rest listened between pity and contempt , till he declared , in ho ...
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... advantage by means , which , if once established , must destroy kindness , cut off from every man all hopes of assistance from another , and fill the world with per- petual suspicion and implacable malevolence . What- ever is thus ...
... advantage by means , which , if once established , must destroy kindness , cut off from every man all hopes of assistance from another , and fill the world with per- petual suspicion and implacable malevolence . What- ever is thus ...
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... advantages ; but a man may shuffle cards , or rattle dice , from noon to midnight , without tracing any new idea in his mind , or being able to recollect the day by any other token than his gain or loss , and a confused remembrance of ...
... advantages ; but a man may shuffle cards , or rattle dice , from noon to midnight , without tracing any new idea in his mind , or being able to recollect the day by any other token than his gain or loss , and a confused remembrance of ...
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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 145 - 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. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 441 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : 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 233 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 95 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast...
Page 94 - But thou hast promis'd 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 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 149 - Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart, Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out, Death ! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death...
Page 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 105 - ... inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...