The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory ObservationsOliver & Boyd, 1824 - 444 pages |
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... objects which the compiler proposed to himself in this undertaking ; but it would have been inconsistent with the light and cursory nature of his design , to have brought them forward , either in any sort of chronological order , or ...
... objects which the compiler proposed to himself in this undertaking ; but it would have been inconsistent with the light and cursory nature of his design , to have brought them forward , either in any sort of chronological order , or ...
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... object and intent , by placing facts together in such a manner as to produce all the force of argument combined with the interest which lively description never fails to awaken . You will find a very splendid specimen of this species of ...
... object and intent , by placing facts together in such a manner as to produce all the force of argument combined with the interest which lively description never fails to awaken . You will find a very splendid specimen of this species of ...
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... object of the late bountiful grant from his Majesty's ministers , in order to possess them- selves , under the name of creditors and assignees , of every country in India , as fast as it should be conquer- ed , inspired into the mind of ...
... object of the late bountiful grant from his Majesty's ministers , in order to possess them- selves , under the name of creditors and assignees , of every country in India , as fast as it should be conquer- ed , inspired into the mind of ...
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... object , and to leave it to your general con- ceptions . " CHAP . II . CALAMITIES . " IT is very strange , " said the Bachelor , " when Egeria had laid down the book , that we should en- joy so much pleasure from the description of ca ...
... object , and to leave it to your general con- ceptions . " CHAP . II . CALAMITIES . " IT is very strange , " said the Bachelor , " when Egeria had laid down the book , that we should en- joy so much pleasure from the description of ca ...
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... object of the care of Pro- vidence , is most strikingly delineated . This morning for example , in turning over the leaves of De Hum- boldt's Travels , I felt myself very pleasingly interested by his vigorous description of the ...
... object of the care of Pro- vidence , is most strikingly delineated . This morning for example , in turning over the leaves of De Hum- boldt's Travels , I felt myself very pleasingly interested by his vigorous description of the ...
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Page 85 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ; — VOL.
Page 315 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 324 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 148 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 399 - So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Page 403 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked* head. And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 149 - The joys of earth and air are thine entire, That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly; And when thy poppy works, thou dost retire To thy carved acorn-bed to lie. Up with the day, the sun thou welcom'st then, Sport'st in the gilt plaits of his beams; And all these merry days mak'st merry men, Thyself, and melancholy streams.
Page 400 - Wherewith, alas ! reviveth in my breast The sweet accord, such sleeps as yet delight ; The pleasant dreams, the quiet bed of rest ; The secret thoughts, imparted with such trust ; The wanton talk, the divers change of play ; The friendship sworn, each promise kept so just, Wherewith we past the winter night away.
Page 85 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 404 - ON Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming ! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring Of what thy gentle people did befall ; Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore. Sweet land ! may I thy lost delights recall, And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore, Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore...