The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Том 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... human race . The person I speak of is Alexander Selkirk , whose name is familiar to men of curiosity , from the fame of his having lived four years and four months alone in the island of Juan Fernandez . I had the pleasure frequently to ...
... human race . The person I speak of is Alexander Selkirk , whose name is familiar to men of curiosity , from the fame of his having lived four years and four months alone in the island of Juan Fernandez . I had the pleasure frequently to ...
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... human society at once . He had in provision for the sustenance of life , but the quantity of two meals , the island abounding only with wild goats , cats , and rats . He judged it most probable that he should find more immediate and ...
... human society at once . He had in provision for the sustenance of life , but the quantity of two meals , the island abounding only with wild goats , cats , and rats . He judged it most probable that he should find more immediate and ...
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... human ears : but , upon the recovery of his temper , he could with pleasure not only hear their voices , but approach the monsters themselves with great intrepidity . He speaks of sea - lions , whose jaws and tails were capable of ...
... human ears : but , upon the recovery of his temper , he could with pleasure not only hear their voices , but approach the monsters themselves with great intrepidity . He speaks of sea - lions , whose jaws and tails were capable of ...
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... The sister arts , to heighten their images , and strike our minds with greater force , agree to represent human qualities as persons , and to endow them with their peculiar properties . They describe virtues 38 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER .
... The sister arts , to heighten their images , and strike our minds with greater force , agree to represent human qualities as persons , and to endow them with their peculiar properties . They describe virtues 38 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER .
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... human nature are considered , is impracticable before . The painter sometimes debases the dignity of his art , shocks the modest spectator by the im- morality of his pieces , and transmits by the eye , which is the most warm and ...
... human nature are considered , is impracticable before . The painter sometimes debases the dignity of his art , shocks the modest spectator by the im- morality of his pieces , and transmits by the eye , which is the most warm and ...
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Страница 260 - 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.
Страница 182 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'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. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Страница 328 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Страница 122 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Страница 53 - 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.
Страница 4 - ... the Scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months he grew thoroughly reconciled to his condition.
Страница 182 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Страница 182 - Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, .and spoke, and sung ; Here, where the fretted aisles prolong The distant notes of holy song, As if some angel spoke agen, All peace on earth, good-will to men...
Страница 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.