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... feelings vary with time , circum stance , and place ! A few short hours before , I as much abo- minated , as I was now disposed to bless , the dog - trot of a Saxon post - horse ; for it afforded my sight leisure to feast it- self on ...
... feelings vary with time , circum stance , and place ! A few short hours before , I as much abo- minated , as I was now disposed to bless , the dog - trot of a Saxon post - horse ; for it afforded my sight leisure to feast it- self on ...
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... feelings and cooler heads , he might have risen to the empyreal height of true glory ; as it was , he became the prey of ... feeling are every where touching and pa- thetic . F " E - VOL . VII . * 2 Aventuras de Gil Blas de Santillana ...
... feelings and cooler heads , he might have risen to the empyreal height of true glory ; as it was , he became the prey of ... feeling are every where touching and pa- thetic . F " E - VOL . VII . * 2 Aventuras de Gil Blas de Santillana ...
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... Feeling - PUNCH has no feeling ! " They are now degra- ded lower by many degrees than ever they were in the memory of man . PUNCI loses in dignity of character by comparison with them . If he be guilty of any thing vile and base , he is ...
... Feeling - PUNCH has no feeling ! " They are now degra- ded lower by many degrees than ever they were in the memory of man . PUNCI loses in dignity of character by comparison with them . If he be guilty of any thing vile and base , he is ...
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... feelings . Finely artful as it is , it is not a perfect triumph of art , for the art does not conceal itself . The applause was prodi- gious and indiscriminate ; but the meb always run from one ex- treme to the other . Now they suppress ...
... feelings . Finely artful as it is , it is not a perfect triumph of art , for the art does not conceal itself . The applause was prodi- gious and indiscriminate ; but the meb always run from one ex- treme to the other . Now they suppress ...
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... but he absented him- self , and the consequence was that a most ungenerous feeling per- vaded the house against him . We call it ungenerous , because Mr. Bull Dec. 29. Lear . - Harlequin Pedlar , or the 56 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... but he absented him- self , and the consequence was that a most ungenerous feeling per- vaded the house against him . We call it ungenerous , because Mr. Bull Dec. 29. Lear . - Harlequin Pedlar , or the 56 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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Page 339 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 276 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Page 337 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 131 - I did consent; And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man.
Page 447 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 194 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
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Page 428 - My authority for the opinions which I have declared concerning Mr Francis depends upon facts which have passed within my own certain knowledge. I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour. This is a severe charge, but temperately and deliberately made, from the firm persuasion that I owe this justice to the public and...
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Page 243 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.