Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate MoralityT.N. Longman, 1796 - Anecdotes |
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... asked the fisherman , to whom his countrymen were most attached , to King James , or to the Prince of Orange , stiled King William ? The poor man , confounded by thefe queftions , made the Admiral this reply : " I have never heard talk ...
... asked the fisherman , to whom his countrymen were most attached , to King James , or to the Prince of Orange , stiled King William ? The poor man , confounded by thefe queftions , made the Admiral this reply : " I have never heard talk ...
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... Noir , Lieutenant of the Police . The Magiftrate , furprized at fuch an in- ftance of generofity , asked her who fhe was ? She faid she was of a good family , whom she faid ( 77 ) It is therefore probable, he only meant this in- ...
... Noir , Lieutenant of the Police . The Magiftrate , furprized at fuch an in- ftance of generofity , asked her who fhe was ? She faid she was of a good family , whom she faid ( 77 ) It is therefore probable, he only meant this in- ...
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... asked her , why she had fuffered him to languish fo long ? " Alas ! my dear Abbot , " replied Ninon , " my tenderness had fuffered as much as yours , but it was the effect of a spark of vanity . I was defir- ous , for the novelty of the ...
... asked her , why she had fuffered him to languish fo long ? " Alas ! my dear Abbot , " replied Ninon , " my tenderness had fuffered as much as yours , but it was the effect of a spark of vanity . I was defir- ous , for the novelty of the ...
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... asked him if he was going to preach ? But at the fame time bid him take care what he faid when he spoke to a man of honour . " A man of honour ! " ( cried the Major ) " thou art an infidel , and a blafphemer , and I fhall ufe thee as ...
... asked him if he was going to preach ? But at the fame time bid him take care what he faid when he spoke to a man of honour . " A man of honour ! " ( cried the Major ) " thou art an infidel , and a blafphemer , and I fhall ufe thee as ...
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... asked pardon for his offence in a fhort extempore prayer , which the Major dictated on the fpot ; and the other repeated it in the presence of the whole company , which was by this time affembled in the garden . A N UNCOMMON Inftance of ...
... asked pardon for his offence in a fhort extempore prayer , which the Major dictated on the fpot ; and the other repeated it in the presence of the whole company , which was by this time affembled in the garden . A N UNCOMMON Inftance of ...
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Page 5 - vifit no more. My Friends do they now and then fend A wifh or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a Friend, Though a Friend I am never to fee. How fleet is the glance of the mind!
Page 5 - is laid down in his lair; Even here is a feafon of reft, And I to my cabin repair. There's Mercy in every place, And Mercy, encouraging Thought! Gives even Affliction a grace, And reconciles Man to his lot.
Page 103 - O lead me wherefoe'er I go, Through this day's life or death. This day, be bread and peace my lot: All elfe beneath the fun, Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not, And let thy will be done. To Thee, whofe temple is all fpace, Whofe altar, earth, fea, flues! One chorus let all beings raife! All nature's incenfe rife!
Page 5 - Thro' worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who thro' vail immenfity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compofe one univerfe, Obferve how fyftem into fyftem runs, What other planets circle other funs, What varied being peoples
Page 7 - know why man reftrains His fiery courfe, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then (hall man's pride and dulnefs comprehend His actions', paflions',
Page 75 - one day careffing her infant fon in the open window of an apartment, which hung over the river Volturna; the child, with a fudden fpring, leaped from her arms into the flood below, and difappeared in a moment. The mother, ftruck with
Page 84 - eye, His fuppliants fcorn him, and his followers fly; At once is loft the pride of awful ftate, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate, The regal palace, the .luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord; With age, with
Page 69 - from lower degrees of happinefs to higher. They have each faculties affigned them for various orders of delights." "What!" cried I } "is this the language of Religion? Does fhe lead her votaries through flowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious life? Where are the painful toils of virtue, the mortifications of penitents,
Page 3 - Am Monarch of all I furvey, -*• My right there is none to difpute; From the centre all round to the fea, I am Lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That Sages have
Page 67 - came near, with a horrid frown, and a voice that chilled my very blood, (he bade me follow her. I obeyed; and fhe led me through rugged paths, befet with briars and thorns, into a deep folitary valley. Wherever fhe pafled, the fading verdure withered beneath her fteps, her