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... fortune to find the public in a humour to be en- tertained . To this confidence in good for- tune , which all possess , though it can only in some instances be justified by success , we owe recruits to our army and navy , for to it ...
... fortune to find the public in a humour to be en- tertained . To this confidence in good for- tune , which all possess , though it can only in some instances be justified by success , we owe recruits to our army and navy , for to it ...
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... fortune , and fame , are overcrowded by Hope , who , like a master of ceremonies at his annual ball , takes care to issue tickets for ten times the number that the place can accommodate , why should we not thrust ourselves forward in ...
... fortune , and fame , are overcrowded by Hope , who , like a master of ceremonies at his annual ball , takes care to issue tickets for ten times the number that the place can accommodate , why should we not thrust ourselves forward in ...
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... Fortune's game , has seldom omitted striking the ball at the rebound , if he missed it while in the air , said , with his characteristic indifference , " Egad , gentle- men , since the trick of the scene requires this mummery of ...
... Fortune's game , has seldom omitted striking the ball at the rebound , if he missed it while in the air , said , with his characteristic indifference , " Egad , gentle- men , since the trick of the scene requires this mummery of ...
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... fortunes , appearing thus to be engaged in a combination against Peter , he resolved , nevertheless , not to be awanting to himself , but , relying on his own exertions , determined to break the measures instituted against him by his ...
... fortunes , appearing thus to be engaged in a combination against Peter , he resolved , nevertheless , not to be awanting to himself , but , relying on his own exertions , determined to break the measures instituted against him by his ...
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... fortune , ) he has not permitted his disappointment to abate his spirits or render his conversation less lively . Indeed , the sole effect of the failure of his hopes has been to exasperate a natural humour of contradiction , and ...
... fortune , ) he has not permitted his disappointment to abate his spirits or render his conversation less lively . Indeed , the sole effect of the failure of his hopes has been to exasperate a natural humour of contradiction , and ...
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Página 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Página 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Página 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Página 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Página 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Página 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...