Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 1 |
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... letter , written in Mrs. Brindley's hand ; and on feeing her own name mentioned in it ; fhe was doubly prompted by curiofity to perufe the whole contents . The perufal of them almoft deprived her of fenfes , for fhe now found that fhe ...
... letter , written in Mrs. Brindley's hand ; and on feeing her own name mentioned in it ; fhe was doubly prompted by curiofity to perufe the whole contents . The perufal of them almoft deprived her of fenfes , for fhe now found that fhe ...
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... letter , wherein I told her in what manner I had deceived her , and that I fhould never fee her again . It was not without the most cutting reflections that I committed this mafter- piece of barbarity , ( for fo I muft call it ) as I ...
... letter , wherein I told her in what manner I had deceived her , and that I fhould never fee her again . It was not without the most cutting reflections that I committed this mafter- piece of barbarity , ( for fo I muft call it ) as I ...
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... letter , which I had dropped in my fright , and offered all the confolation that good fenfe and good nature could fuggeft ; but in vain , for I not only lamented the lofs of reputa- tion , but the lofs of a man's affection whom I loved ...
... letter , which I had dropped in my fright , and offered all the confolation that good fenfe and good nature could fuggeft ; but in vain , for I not only lamented the lofs of reputa- tion , but the lofs of a man's affection whom I loved ...
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... orphan to his own care , as he fhould think it but an envious deed , to deprive him of the virtu- ous pleasures of providing for his charitable adop tion himself . 15 COPY Copy of a LETTER , WRITTEN BY AN EARL OF ( 54 )
... orphan to his own care , as he fhould think it but an envious deed , to deprive him of the virtu- ous pleasures of providing for his charitable adop tion himself . 15 COPY Copy of a LETTER , WRITTEN BY AN EARL OF ( 54 )
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... LETTER , WRITTEN BY AN EARL OF DERBY TO OLIVER CROMWELL ; It is couched in ftrong Terms of Diffatisfaction towards the Ufurper , and breathes an heroic Spirit and Loyalty for his I SOVEREIGN . RECEIVED your letter with indignation , and ...
... LETTER , WRITTEN BY AN EARL OF DERBY TO OLIVER CROMWELL ; It is couched in ftrong Terms of Diffatisfaction towards the Ufurper , and breathes an heroic Spirit and Loyalty for his I SOVEREIGN . RECEIVED your letter with indignation , and ...
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Page 236 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 290 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Page 110 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 236 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.
Page 170 - Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 235 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 280 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 208 - Discourses of morality, and reflections upon human nature, are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds, and gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and consequently to recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance, and prejudice, which naturally cleave to them. I have all along...
Page 108 - But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts...
Page 108 - Av'rice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains: He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands...