The life of Dr. Parnell. The life of Henry Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. [Miscellaneous prefaces]. The Bee. EssaysF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... less , if you were truly sensible of the un- easiness it gives me . Did I know you so ill as to " think you proud , I would be much less concerned " than I am able to be , when I know one of the " best - natured men alive neglects me ...
... less , if you were truly sensible of the un- easiness it gives me . Did I know you so ill as to " think you proud , I would be much less concerned " than I am able to be , when I know one of the " best - natured men alive neglects me ...
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... less lively a representation than that I carry about with me , and which rises to my mind " whenever I think of you . I have many an agree- " able reverie through those woods and downs where " we once rambled together ; my head is ...
... less lively a representation than that I carry about with me , and which rises to my mind " whenever I think of you . I have many an agree- " able reverie through those woods and downs where " we once rambled together ; my head is ...
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... less correct than his subjects are pleasing . He found it at that period , in which it was brought to its highest pitch of refine- ment ; and ever since his time it has been gradually debasing . It is indeed amazing , after what has ...
... less correct than his subjects are pleasing . He found it at that period , in which it was brought to its highest pitch of refine- ment ; and ever since his time it has been gradually debasing . It is indeed amazing , after what has ...
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... less employed in improving his superior talents , than in finding objects on which to exercise their activity . His life was spent in a continual conflict of politics , and as if that was too short for the combat , he has left his ...
... less employed in improving his superior talents , than in finding objects on which to exercise their activity . His life was spent in a continual conflict of politics , and as if that was too short for the combat , he has left his ...
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... less kind to him in her exter- nal embellishments , than in adorning his mind . With the graces of an handsome person , and a face in which dignity was happily blended with sweetness , he had a manner of address that was very engaging ...
... less kind to him in her exter- nal embellishments , than in adorning his mind . With the graces of an handsome person , and a face in which dignity was happily blended with sweetness , he had a manner of address that was very engaging ...
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Página 420 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 427 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 437 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 394 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 251 - We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We have fished up very little gold that I can learn ; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.
Página 206 - ... state ; and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the net ; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Página 420 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Página 7 - For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend ; For SWIFT and him, despised the farce of state, • The sober follies of the wise and great ; Dext'rous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleased to 'scape from Flattery to Wit.
Página 411 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravish'd heart? But Thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest; When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Página 178 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them.