The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volumen2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... thought the most essential of all acquirements . Soon after my twentieth year my father died , leaving me possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a year , and ( I hope I may say it without vanity ) with as great a share of ...
... thought the most essential of all acquirements . Soon after my twentieth year my father died , leaving me possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a year , and ( I hope I may say it without vanity ) with as great a share of ...
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... thought of revisiting those scenes where I had spent so many happy days in the early morn of life , ' and of seeing again the compa- nions of my youthful sports , many of whom I knew had settled in the country , and lived on their ...
... thought of revisiting those scenes where I had spent so many happy days in the early morn of life , ' and of seeing again the compa- nions of my youthful sports , many of whom I knew had settled in the country , and lived on their ...
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... thought , with a voice and gesture rather rough and vehement . 6 6 6 This important part of the ceremonial being at length adjusted , the dancing began . My conductress asked me if I did not think the ladies , in general , handsome ? I ...
... thought , with a voice and gesture rather rough and vehement . 6 6 6 This important part of the ceremonial being at length adjusted , the dancing began . My conductress asked me if I did not think the ladies , in general , handsome ? I ...
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... thought . To attain this important end there are various means , according to the variety of tastes . To escape from his own thoughts , one lounger betakes himself to his bottle , another to the gaming - table , and a third to a ...
... thought . To attain this important end there are various means , according to the variety of tastes . To escape from his own thoughts , one lounger betakes himself to his bottle , another to the gaming - table , and a third to a ...
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... thoughts are often employed upon the great and important objects of life , but who can neverthe- less unbend his mind ... thought well of , if kept within proper bounds , and the search after knowledge , if it does not lead to arrogance ...
... thoughts are often employed upon the great and important objects of life , but who can neverthe- less unbend his mind ... thought well of , if kept within proper bounds , and the search after knowledge , if it does not lead to arrogance ...
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Página 266 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 95 - Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe, Where, round some mouldering tower, pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies ; Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
Página 177 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Página 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 261 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 262 - The time is out of joint ; — Oh cursed spite ! That ever I was born to set it right ! Nay, come, let's go together.
Página 134 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 323 - if Louisa will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never cease to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more ; when this heart shall have forgot to love, and cease to be wretched.