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... person exalted above the other by a peculiar sprightliness ; as one who , by a distinguishing vigour , outstrips his companions , and has thereby deserved and obtained a particular appellation or nick- name of familiarity . Some have ...
... person exalted above the other by a peculiar sprightliness ; as one who , by a distinguishing vigour , outstrips his companions , and has thereby deserved and obtained a particular appellation or nick- name of familiarity . Some have ...
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... person for this station amongst men , he is gifted with a peculiar genius for success , and his very errors and absurdities contribute to it ; this felicity attending him to his life's end : for it being in a manner necessary that he ...
... person for this station amongst men , he is gifted with a peculiar genius for success , and his very errors and absurdities contribute to it ; this felicity attending him to his life's end : for it being in a manner necessary that he ...
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... person is finely turned , and speaks him a man of quality : which are qualifications that , I think , ought by no means to be overlooked , and should be bestowed on a daugh- ter as the reward of her chastity . " a A woman that will give ...
... person is finely turned , and speaks him a man of quality : which are qualifications that , I think , ought by no means to be overlooked , and should be bestowed on a daugh- ter as the reward of her chastity . " a A woman that will give ...
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... person ) said pleasantly enough , that she had spoiled our blood , but mended our constitutions . After this account of the effect our prudent choice of matches has had upon our persons and features , I cannot but observe , that there ...
... person ) said pleasantly enough , that she had spoiled our blood , but mended our constitutions . After this account of the effect our prudent choice of matches has had upon our persons and features , I cannot but observe , that there ...
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... person agreeable . It would make you laugh , to see me often with my spectacles on lacing her stays ; for she is so very a wit , that she understands no ordinary thing in the world . mour , For this reason I have disposed of her to a ...
... person agreeable . It would make you laugh , to see me often with my spectacles on lacing her stays ; for she is so very a wit , that she understands no ordinary thing in the world . mour , For this reason I have disposed of her to a ...
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Page 100 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 110 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 100 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 219 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 343 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 75 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 303 - ... her branches to the seas and to the floods. The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes ; I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart; I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of all men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them, neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness.
Page 494 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Page 374 - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Page 93 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.