The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volumen2J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 |
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... give us Leave to under- take what we ought . But how unfortunate this diffident Temper is to thofe who are poffefs'd with it , may be beft feen in the Succefs of fuch as are wholly unacquainted with it . We have one peculiar Elegance in ...
... give us Leave to under- take what we ought . But how unfortunate this diffident Temper is to thofe who are poffefs'd with it , may be beft feen in the Succefs of fuch as are wholly unacquainted with it . We have one peculiar Elegance in ...
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... give him a great Employ- ment , he will be glad of a little one . He has fo great a Deference for his Benefactor's Judg- ment , that as he thinks himself fit for any Thing he can get , fo he is above nothing which is offered . He is ...
... give him a great Employ- ment , he will be glad of a little one . He has fo great a Deference for his Benefactor's Judg- ment , that as he thinks himself fit for any Thing he can get , fo he is above nothing which is offered . He is ...
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five Years , till Ofmyn thought of an happy Expedient to give their Affairs a new Turn . One Day he took Elmira afide , and spoke as follows : My Dear , You See here the Air is fo temperate and ferene , the Rivulets , the Groves , and ...
five Years , till Ofmyn thought of an happy Expedient to give their Affairs a new Turn . One Day he took Elmira afide , and spoke as follows : My Dear , You See here the Air is fo temperate and ferene , the Rivulets , the Groves , and ...
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... give us an Idea of what we are to expect in a Person of his Way of Thinking . Shakespear is your Pat- tern . In the Tragedy of Cafar , he introduces his Hero in his Night - Gown . He had at that Time all the Power of Rome : Depos'd Con ...
... give us an Idea of what we are to expect in a Person of his Way of Thinking . Shakespear is your Pat- tern . In the Tragedy of Cafar , he introduces his Hero in his Night - Gown . He had at that Time all the Power of Rome : Depos'd Con ...
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... give no Account of himself . These are undoubted Proofs of the Departure of a Lover ; and con- fequently Coriana is alfo dead as a Mistress . I have written to Stentor to give this Couple Three Calls at the Church - Door , which they ...
... give no Account of himself . These are undoubted Proofs of the Departure of a Lover ; and con- fequently Coriana is alfo dead as a Mistress . I have written to Stentor to give this Couple Three Calls at the Church - Door , which they ...
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Página 227 - Among those who were far advanced in their way, there were some that by one false step fell backward, and lost more ground in a moment than they had gained for many hours, or could be ever able to recover. We were now advanced very high, and observed that all the different paths which ran about the sides of the mountain began to meet in two great roads: which insensibly gathered the whole multitude of travellers into two great bodies. At a little...
Página 117 - My beloved! and the words grace ! regeneration! sanctification! a new light! the day! the day! ay, my beloved, the day! or rather the night! the night is coming!
Página 117 - ... so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able, it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
Página 325 - Every moment of her life brings me fresh instances of her complacency to my inclinations, and her prudence in regard to my fortune. Her face is to me much more beautiful than when I first saw it; there is no decay in any feature which I cannot trace from the very instant it was occasioned by some anxious concern for my welfare and interests.
Página 67 - His allowance from his father was a very plentiful one for a man of sense, but as scanty for a modern fine gentleman. His frequent losses had reduced him to so necessitous a condition, that his lodgings were always haunted by impatient creditors; and all his thoughts employed in contriving low methods to support himself in a way of life from which he knew not how to retreat, and In which he wanted means to proceed. There is never wanting some...
Página 328 - for being the champion of England; and by this means had his thoughts insensibly moulded into the notions of discretion, virtue, and honour. I was extolling his accomplishments, when the mother told me, that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. "Betty...
Página 322 - THERE are several persons who have many pleasures and entertainments in their possession, which they do not enjoy. It is, therefore, a kind and good office to acquaint them with their own happiness, and turn their attention to such instances of their good fortune as they are apt to overlook.
Página 398 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Página 337 - ... larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...