Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 1 |
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... took the hint , and immediately pre- fented him with one of the richest fuits . rick , highly gratified with the generosity of Sir William , returned . Sir William , fome time after this , happening to be in company with Hend- rick ...
... took the hint , and immediately pre- fented him with one of the richest fuits . rick , highly gratified with the generosity of Sir William , returned . Sir William , fome time after this , happening to be in company with Hend- rick ...
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... took my fill once more of what fine gentlemen call pleafure . At the end of three years my father died and left me a very large for- tune . I had attended him clofely during his ill- nefs , and having many opportunities to meditate on ...
... took my fill once more of what fine gentlemen call pleafure . At the end of three years my father died and left me a very large for- tune . I had attended him clofely during his ill- nefs , and having many opportunities to meditate on ...
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... took not much notice of her at first , ( for I was grown quite indifferent to the fex ) but my companion was inftantly charmed with her figure , and approaching her , asked in the politeft manner a few questions about herself and family ...
... took not much notice of her at first , ( for I was grown quite indifferent to the fex ) but my companion was inftantly charmed with her figure , and approaching her , asked in the politeft manner a few questions about herself and family ...
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... took an opportunity to reprefent to him that fhe would prove an advantageous match to him- felf , though by no means worthy of a monarch ; and having obtained his confent to demand her in marriage , fucceeded in his fuit . Ethelwold had ...
... took an opportunity to reprefent to him that fhe would prove an advantageous match to him- felf , though by no means worthy of a monarch ; and having obtained his confent to demand her in marriage , fucceeded in his fuit . Ethelwold had ...
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... took & carried Monfieur de Croiffers Colbert , being a prisoner , into the town . Colbert being a major - general , and brother to the Marquis de Torcy , was greately taken with the clemency , humanity , 6 humanity , and good behaviour ...
... took & carried Monfieur de Croiffers Colbert , being a prisoner , into the town . Colbert being a major - general , and brother to the Marquis de Torcy , was greately taken with the clemency , humanity , 6 humanity , and good behaviour ...
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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...