The British Essayists: TatlerC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... keep ordinary company , and frequent busy people for some time , before I can recover my common words . ' I smiled at his raillery upon him- self , though I well saw it came from a heavy heart . You are , ' said I , acquainted , to be ...
... keep ordinary company , and frequent busy people for some time , before I can recover my common words . ' I smiled at his raillery upon him- self , though I well saw it came from a heavy heart . You are , ' said I , acquainted , to be ...
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... keep company with any body , but two or three friends who are in the same condition . ' 6 There , ' answered I , you are to blame ; for as you ought to avoid nothing more than keeping company with yourself , so you ought to be parti ...
... keep company with any body , but two or three friends who are in the same condition . ' 6 There , ' answered I , you are to blame ; for as you ought to avoid nothing more than keeping company with yourself , so you ought to be parti ...
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... keep a constant correspondence , and return visit for visit punctually every week , and yet we have not seen each other since last November was twelvemonth . ' 6 6 6 She went on with a very good air , and fixing her eyes on her list ...
... keep a constant correspondence , and return visit for visit punctually every week , and yet we have not seen each other since last November was twelvemonth . ' 6 6 6 She went on with a very good air , and fixing her eyes on her list ...
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... keep an account , by way of debtor and creditor . I know a city lady who uses that method , which I think very laudable : for though you may possibly at the court end of the town receive at the door , and light up better than within ...
... keep an account , by way of debtor and creditor . I know a city lady who uses that method , which I think very laudable : for though you may possibly at the court end of the town receive at the door , and light up better than within ...
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... keeps so before - hand , that she pays every body their own , and yet makes daily new acquaintances . ' I know not whether this agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out ...
... keeps so before - hand , that she pays every body their own , and yet makes daily new acquaintances . ' I know not whether this agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out ...
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Страница ix - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Страница 42 - 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...
Страница 25 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Страница 58 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : 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...
Страница 43 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Страница 205 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Страница 386 - Hence it is that good-nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences from my own judgment, I imbibed commiseration, remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since...
Страница 387 - ... why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek, to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless? Nor age, nor business, nor distress can erase the dear image from my imagination. In the same week, I saw her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler!
Страница 223 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Страница 43 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.