Continuation of the RamblerF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... lady's impatience of controul 85. The mischiefs of total idleness • • 86. The danger of succeeding a great author : an ... ladies 98. The necessity of cultivating politeness 99. The pleasures of private friendship . The neces- sity of ...
... lady's impatience of controul 85. The mischiefs of total idleness • • 86. The danger of succeeding a great author : an ... ladies 98. The necessity of cultivating politeness 99. The pleasures of private friendship . The neces- sity of ...
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... lady's misery in a summer retirement 125. The difficulty of defining comedy . Tragick and · · 344 comick sentiments confounded 126. The universality of cowardice . The impropriety of extorting praise . The impertinence of an astronomer ...
... lady's misery in a summer retirement 125. The difficulty of defining comedy . Tragick and · · 344 comick sentiments confounded 126. The universality of cowardice . The impropriety of extorting praise . The impertinence of an astronomer ...
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... ladies must revert at last to the hereditary estate , and that his family might lose none of its dignity , resolved to keep me untainted with a lucrative employment ; whenever therefore I discovered any inclination to the improvement of ...
... ladies must revert at last to the hereditary estate , and that his family might lose none of its dignity , resolved to keep me untainted with a lucrative employment ; whenever therefore I discovered any inclination to the improvement of ...
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... lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this conviction of the perfidy of man , resolved never to listen more to amorous addresses . Ten ...
... lady , after innumerable stipulations , articles , and settlements , ran away with the daughter of his father's groom ; and my aunt , upon this conviction of the perfidy of man , resolved never to listen more to amorous addresses . Ten ...
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... thing more than the symptom of some deeper ma- lady . He that is angry without daring to confess his resentment , or sorrowful without the liberty of V telling his grief , is too frequently inclined to C 2 No 74 . 19 THE RAMBLER .
... thing more than the symptom of some deeper ma- lady . He that is angry without daring to confess his resentment , or sorrowful without the liberty of V telling his grief , is too frequently inclined to C 2 No 74 . 19 THE RAMBLER .
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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...