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... attempted verses of his own , which helped his mother to hope for her boy against the hostile verdict of others . Then there was the music of a blind harper — for Irish min- strels were not yet wholly passed away — to awaken his love of ...
... attempted verses of his own , which helped his mother to hope for her boy against the hostile verdict of others . Then there was the music of a blind harper — for Irish min- strels were not yet wholly passed away — to awaken his love of ...
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... attempted to practice medicine . He did all sorts of anonymous hack work for publishers , living the while in garrets , and in so great poverty and human - heartedness that he pawned his clothes to help his distressed landlady . Still ...
... attempted to practice medicine . He did all sorts of anonymous hack work for publishers , living the while in garrets , and in so great poverty and human - heartedness that he pawned his clothes to help his distressed landlady . Still ...
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... attempted to restrain their affliction ; for premature consolation is but the remem- brancer of sorrow . During this interval my thoughts were em- ployed on some future means of supporting them ; and at last a small cure1 of fifteen ...
... attempted to restrain their affliction ; for premature consolation is but the remem- brancer of sorrow . During this interval my thoughts were em- ployed on some future means of supporting them ; and at last a small cure1 of fifteen ...
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... attempted to entertain him with topics they thought most modern , while Moses , on the contrary , gave him a question or two from the ancients , for which he had the satisfaction of being laughed at , for he always ascribed to his wit ...
... attempted to entertain him with topics they thought most modern , while Moses , on the contrary , gave him a question or two from the ancients , for which he had the satisfaction of being laughed at , for he always ascribed to his wit ...
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... attempts of a rustic to flay Marsyas , whose skin , the fable tells us , had been wholly stripped off by another . Besides , I don't know if this poor man's situation be so bad as my father would represent it . We are not to judge of ...
... attempts of a rustic to flay Marsyas , whose skin , the fable tells us , had been wholly stripped off by another . Besides , I don't know if this poor man's situation be so bad as my father would represent it . We are not to judge of ...
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Page 56 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. "For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow, Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And, though my portion is but scant, I give it with good-will.
Page 223 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page 132 - In all the foreign universities and convents there are, upon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant; for which, if the champion opposes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one night.
Page 16 - Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can; An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. As an actor, confessed without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Page 108 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of on
Page 54 - I have just passed part of this summer at an old romantic seat of my Lord Harcourt's, which he lent me. It overlooks a common field, where, under the shade of a haycock, sat two lovers, as constant as ever were found in Romance, beneath a spreading beech. The name of the one (let it sound as it will) was John Hewet ; of the other, Sarah Drew. John was a well-set man about five and twenty, Sarah a brown woman of eighteen.
Page 54 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps this very day, in the intervals of their work, they were talking of their...
Page 76 - We all followed him several paces from the door, bawling after him, Good luck! good luck!
Page 17 - OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH— A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn...
Page 55 - The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay : they first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair; — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discolouring on their bodies, only that Sarah's...