Miscellanies, in Two Parts: Prose--II. Verse, &c |
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acquaintance acquired Adalaide affection Alcanzor amiable Amphibia amuse animals appear attention beauty birds bliss breast Caliph of Damascus character charms conduct connexions CRYPTOGAMIA delight deserve despise Digynia disposition duty endeared endeavoured enjoy eyes father favour fear feel felicity fishes fortune frequently gained genius Gillyflower give gratify happy heart Holy Orders honour hope human Ibrahim indulged innocence insects irreligion Javanese kind learning Linnĉus mankind manners master merit mind misery misfortune Monogynia moral multivalve nations native nature never object obtunded occasion once Ormah oviparous pain parents passion person pistil pity pleasure possess pride principles quadrupeds qualities rank reason reflection regard render Richard Busby Robinson Crusoe scarcely sense sensible Shadrach shew Shiraz situation smile society soon soul stamens Stenography taste thought tion Triandria virtue virtuous viviparous William Melville wish young youth Zayda
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Page 285 - Its form decays, and all its odours die ; So woman, born to dignify retreat, Unknown to flourish, and unseen be great, To give domestic life its sweetest charm, With softness polish, and with virtue warm, Fearful of fame, unwilling to be known, Should seek but Heaven's applauses, and her own...
Page 201 - ... over. We are assured by Pliny, who says, that he himself saw the skin, that it was a hundred and twenty feet long, and that it had destroyed many of the army. At last, however, the battering engines were brought out against it ; and these assailing it at a distance, it was soon destroyed. Its spoils were carried to Rome, and the general was decreed an ovation for his success.
Page 274 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Page 321 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 42 - As soon as the tiger perceives the buffalo, he springs upon him ; while his huge opponent stands expecting him, with his horns upon the ground, to catch him upon them, and throw him in the air. If the buffalo succeed in this, and the tiger...
Page 132 - Immediately on this he fhut the door; and befeeching her attention for a few minutes, to an affair which nearly concerned his happinefs, he began to infult her with the moft violent proteftations of love; and fwore that if...
Page 17 - His delicacy would not suffer him to make many trials of such ingratitude. He was ready to sink under his misfortunes. Providence, however, directed him to two brothers, who in consequence of his care in their early youth, and their own diligent exertions in maturer years, had obtained a competence in foreign lands, and were returned to spend it with honour in their own. These, instead of turning their backs on his distress, invited him, in the most cordial manner, to pass the remainder of his days...
Page 130 - The whole amount of his living did not exceed fourfcore pounds a 'year, and confequently little could be allowed for the maintenance of a curate. My Olivia was again pregnant; when I •found that, exclufive of fome...
Page 113 - I am deeply concerned," said he, Ğ to observe any one whom I so tenderly love, fond of cruel sport. Do you think that the poor beetle which you are thus agonizing, is incapable of sensation? And if you are aware that it feels pain as well as you, how can you receive amusement from its torture ? Animals, it is true, were formed for the use of man ; but reason and humanity forbid us to abuse them. Every creature, not immediately noxious to our kind, ought to be cherished, or at least not injured....
Page 203 - ... the ceiling by silken strings; one of these wires rested by one end on the wet napkin on which the fish lay ; the other end was immersed in a basin...