Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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... such evils is the obvious immediate remedy ; but often the remedy is so little understood , as to be worse than the disease . Hence the very AUTHOR'S PREFACE . dangerous mistakes about solitude , which are iv AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... such evils is the obvious immediate remedy ; but often the remedy is so little understood , as to be worse than the disease . Hence the very AUTHOR'S PREFACE . dangerous mistakes about solitude , which are iv AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
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... solitude , which are no- ticed in this work . Again , there is in the world a spread of instruc- tion , as well as of luxury ; and also , I think , more zeal , more lively attention to duty , in our religious instructors . Yet I ...
... solitude , which are no- ticed in this work . Again , there is in the world a spread of instruc- tion , as well as of luxury ; and also , I think , more zeal , more lively attention to duty , in our religious instructors . Yet I ...
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... solitude , when a man is not properly prepared for it , seems in particular to be founded on accurate experience . There is one thing , and one only , which really does puzzle the Editor . He cannot make out whe- ther the author himself ...
... solitude , when a man is not properly prepared for it , seems in particular to be founded on accurate experience . There is one thing , and one only , which really does puzzle the Editor . He cannot make out whe- ther the author himself ...
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... SOLitude . " Oh ! Jupiter ! how weary are my spirits ! " SHAKSPEARE . It was the middle of August ; the great gates of Belmont were thrown open by the obsequious por- ter at the lodge ; a barouche and four , well ap- pointed , drove in ...
... SOLitude . " Oh ! Jupiter ! how weary are my spirits ! " SHAKSPEARE . It was the middle of August ; the great gates of Belmont were thrown open by the obsequious por- ter at the lodge ; a barouche and four , well ap- pointed , drove in ...
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... solitude , when a man is not properly prepared for it , seems in particular to be founded on accurate experience . There is one thing , and one only , which really does puzzle the Editor . He cannot make out whe- ther the author himself ...
... solitude , when a man is not properly prepared for it , seems in particular to be founded on accurate experience . There is one thing , and one only , which really does puzzle the Editor . He cannot make out whe- ther the author himself ...
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Page 5 - 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 149 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt 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 149 - 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. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature...
Page 55 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Page 33 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 142 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Page 68 - This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 25 - IN that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray ; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings), A train of phantoms in wild order rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose.
Page 79 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 47 - A great deal," replied Evelyn ; " for, in the place I allude to, he was the quizzer, and Oliver the quizzee. ' We courtiers,' he says, ' valued ourselves much upon our good clothes; and when I first saw Oliver, he seemed a gentleman very ordinarily clad, in a plain suit, made, as it should seem, by. an ill country tailor ; his linen not very clean, his hat without a hatband, and his sword stuck on awkwardly.