The Englishman: A Novel. In Six Volumes, Volume 5Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Company, Leadenhall-Street, 1812 |
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Page 240 - Th' important business of your life is love : To this great point direct your constant aim, This makes your happiness, and this your fame. Be never cool reserve with passion join'd : With caution choose, but then be fondly kind.
Page 67 - Jove restores the genial spring. Then let us not of Fate complain, For soon shall change the gloomy scene. Apollo sometimes can inspire The silent Muse, and wake the lyre: The deathful bow not always plies, Th' unerring dart not always flies.
Page 225 - Then let me tell you how grateful I am for all you have done for me.
Page 55 - No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it- Sbaiipeare.
Page 101 - you have a sacred duty to fulfil in your deceased grandmother's room, will you allow me the honour of a few minutes' conversation with M. Noirtier?" That is it, said the old man's eye. Then he looked anxiously at Valentine. " Do you fear he will not upderstand you ?"
Page 249 - The first step towards vice is to make a mystery of innocent actions.