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I would , therefore , rather choose to speak of the pleasure you afford all who are admitted into your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite arts of learning , of your great humanity and complacency of manners , and of ...
I would , therefore , rather choose to speak of the pleasure you afford all who are admitted into your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite arts of learning , of your great humanity and complacency of manners , and of ...
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With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others . The fame frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very ...
With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others . The fame frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very ...
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If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , · He has good ' blood in his veins , Tom Mirable begot him , ' the rogue cheated me in that affair , that young fellow's mother used me more like a ...
If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , · He has good ' blood in his veins , Tom Mirable begot him , ' the rogue cheated me in that affair , that young fellow's mother used me more like a ...
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way of talking of his , very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him'as of that sort of man , who is usually ...
way of talking of his , very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him'as of that sort of man , who is usually ...
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... but speak of me very currently by the appellation of Mr. What d'ye call him . To make up for these trivial disadvantages , ! have the highest satisfaction of beholding all nature with an unprejudiced eye ; and having nothing to do ...
... but speak of me very currently by the appellation of Mr. What d'ye call him . To make up for these trivial disadvantages , ! have the highest satisfaction of beholding all nature with an unprejudiced eye ; and having nothing to do ...
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Page 148 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 43 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 70 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Page 145 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 228 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 408 - Scotland can witness be, I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came, Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase. "Now God be with him...
Page 59 - I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes, as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex. In the...
Page 147 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.
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Page 5 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.