The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, 1. kötetNathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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3. oldal
... face of man , during the interval of craving bodily appetites , were hardly supportable . He grew dejected , languid , and melancholy , scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence ; till by degrees , by the force of reason , and ...
... face of man , during the interval of craving bodily appetites , were hardly supportable . He grew dejected , languid , and melancholy , scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence ; till by degrees , by the force of reason , and ...
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... face . : This plain man's story is a memorable ex- ample , that he is happiest who confines his wants to natural necessities ; and he that goes fur- ther in his desires , increases his wants in pro- portion to his acquisitions ; or , to ...
... face . : This plain man's story is a memorable ex- ample , that he is happiest who confines his wants to natural necessities ; and he that goes fur- ther in his desires , increases his wants in pro- portion to his acquisitions ; or , to ...
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... faces at the Burgundian grape . Since the pleasure arising from the polite arts is infinitely beyond the most refined sen sations , he cannot be esteemed an useless man to his country , who endeavours to direct man- kind in the choice ...
... faces at the Burgundian grape . Since the pleasure arising from the polite arts is infinitely beyond the most refined sen sations , he cannot be esteemed an useless man to his country , who endeavours to direct man- kind in the choice ...
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... face , after much atten- tion to his stories , at what time they generally appeared to him , his reply was , " I see them most commonly after the drinking of brandy . " This was enough for me , and I beg my reader not to think it a pun ...
... face , after much atten- tion to his stories , at what time they generally appeared to him , his reply was , " I see them most commonly after the drinking of brandy . " This was enough for me , and I beg my reader not to think it a pun ...
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... face , till , in a few years , she surpassed all the rural lasses that the oldest people had ever seen . Her turn of wit was gentle , polite , and insinuating ; she was of a ready apprehension , and soon learned every thing , so as to ...
... face , till , in a few years , she surpassed all the rural lasses that the oldest people had ever seen . Her turn of wit was gentle , polite , and insinuating ; she was of a ready apprehension , and soon learned every thing , so as to ...
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254. oldal - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
52. oldal - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
55. oldal - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
139. oldal - Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy...
124. oldal - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
5. oldal - ... for the supports of his body were easily attained, but the eager longings for seeing again the face of man, during the interval of craving bodily appetites, were hardly supportable. He grew dejected, languid, and melancholy, scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence, till by degrees, by the force of reason and frequent reading of the scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months, he grew thoroughly reconciled to his Condition.
55. oldal - Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue...
322. oldal - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
177. oldal - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pur's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
38. oldal - The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. What to the ear sublimer rapture brings, That strain alone the genuine Poet sings ; That form alone where glows peculiar grace, The genuine Painter condescends to trace : 10 No sordid theme will verse or paint admit, Unworthy colours, if unworthy wit.