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... give them a relish far beyond " that of any greengeese of our neighbour's at the " castle . " .... " Brother , " replied she , " you are a phi- losopher . " I quickly discovered that , while endea- vouring to turn one misfortune into ...
... give them a relish far beyond " that of any greengeese of our neighbour's at the " castle . " .... " Brother , " replied she , " you are a phi- losopher . " I quickly discovered that , while endea- vouring to turn one misfortune into ...
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... give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a ...
... give an account of myself , from which you and your readers will be best able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a ...
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... give the conversation a different turn , they remained silent , and were al- together incapable to talk of those subjects on which I had been accustomed to think and to speak . If I mentioned the Gabrielli , or the Mignotti , they were ...
... give the conversation a different turn , they remained silent , and were al- together incapable to talk of those subjects on which I had been accustomed to think and to speak . If I mentioned the Gabrielli , or the Mignotti , they were ...
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... give immediate relief , are known to in- crease the disease . I am afraid we must apply to the pleasures of the bottle , what , with a slight alter- ation , was said by a wise ancient : " Joy may en- " dure for a night , but heaviness ...
... give immediate relief , are known to in- crease the disease . I am afraid we must apply to the pleasures of the bottle , what , with a slight alter- ation , was said by a wise ancient : " Joy may en- " dure for a night , but heaviness ...
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... for a month , the ranging of his library may give him a hurry of busi- ness for a year , and clearing accounts with his stew- ard is the work of a life - time . These , Sir , are a few of the materials THE MIRROR . 33.
... for a month , the ranging of his library may give him a hurry of busi- ness for a year , and clearing accounts with his stew- ard is the work of a life - time . These , Sir , are a few of the materials THE MIRROR . 33.
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Page 181 - 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.
Page 184 - 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; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Page 152 - That care, however, which watched his health, was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders, than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Page 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.
Page 109 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth in a part of the army which was...
Page 319 - She turned — and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor ; and when he took her hand, he cast on the earth a melancholy look, and seemed unable to speak his feelings. ' Are you not well, Sir Edward ?' said Louisa, with a voice faint and broken. — ' I am ill indeed,' said he, ' but my illness is of the mind.
Page 165 - The Scottish dialect is our ordinary suit ; the English is used only on solemn occasions. When a Scotsman therefore writes, he does it generally in trammels. His own native original language, which he hears spoken around him, he does not make use of ; but he expresses himself in a language in some respects foreign to him, and which he has acquired by study and observation.
Page 266 - ... of his uncle ; but his feeling, too powerful for his prudence, often breaks through that disguise which it seems to have been his original, and ought to have continued his invariable purpose to maintain, till an opportunity should present itself of accomplishing the revenge which he meditated.
Page 321 - ... and to blunt, for a while, the pangs of contrition. These were deeply aggravated by the recollection of her father: a father left in his age to feel his own misfortunes and his daughter's disgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of providing for Venoni.
Page 270 - IN books, whether moral or amusing, there are no passages more captivating, both to the writer and the reader, than those delicate strokes of sentimental morality, which refer our actions to the determination of feeling.