Tremaine ; Or, The Man of RefinementHenry Colburn, 1836 |
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... least detected falsehood . I shall delight , like him , to appre- ciate the value of things , and view the world at a distance ; and shall be able to do so more exactly now than when plunged in its tumults . I , too , may not dis- cover ...
... least detected falsehood . I shall delight , like him , to appre- ciate the value of things , and view the world at a distance ; and shall be able to do so more exactly now than when plunged in its tumults . I , too , may not dis- cover ...
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... least , though not ( he said ) with regret : on the contrary , as he poured out a bumper of Burgundy , he indulged again in a mental soliloquy upon the delights of solitude , and the unfitness of a man to live who could not live alone ...
... least , though not ( he said ) with regret : on the contrary , as he poured out a bumper of Burgundy , he indulged again in a mental soliloquy upon the delights of solitude , and the unfitness of a man to live who could not live alone ...
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... least it was always doubtful to which he was most devoted . This disposition at once to refinement and sensibility , pushed as far as it would go , formed at length a peculiarity in his character , which never quitted him : nor was it ...
... least it was always doubtful to which he was most devoted . This disposition at once to refinement and sensibility , pushed as far as it would go , formed at length a peculiarity in his character , which never quitted him : nor was it ...
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... least might be mingled with his ; and this child of nature was not so much a child , but that she could take exact measure of the affection she bore to different people .. " Well ! and why not ? " said he , recovering a little from the ...
... least might be mingled with his ; and this child of nature was not so much a child , but that she could take exact measure of the affection she bore to different people .. " Well ! and why not ? " said he , recovering a little from the ...
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... least cloud was sure to send them back again ; and at length , the trouble of pulling on his boots growing formidable , they were altogether laid aside . We may suppose that this total abstraction from every thing but his books , was at ...
... least cloud was sure to send them back again ; and at length , the trouble of pulling on his boots growing formidable , they were altogether laid aside . We may suppose that this total abstraction from every thing but his books , was at ...
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Tremaine, Or the Man of Refinement, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Robert Plumer Ward No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 199 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 12 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Page 314 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 313 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 140 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
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Page 84 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 301 - Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aery shapes, Which Reason joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 256 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Page 344 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.