The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes. A Biographic, Political, Literary, and Satirical Compilation: a New Edition, ... in Two Volumes. ...editor, and sold, 1796 |
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... hope- lefs our profpects , unprincipled our actions , or indelible our difgrace , we may be certain of meeting companions , equally miferable , difhonoured , or ruined with our- felves , alike fmarting under the reproaches , falfehood ...
... hope- lefs our profpects , unprincipled our actions , or indelible our difgrace , we may be certain of meeting companions , equally miferable , difhonoured , or ruined with our- felves , alike fmarting under the reproaches , falfehood ...
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... hope make his heart fick ; ho- neft , though unrequited effort , will afford folid comfort . He " may confole himself , with re- “ flecting , that he shares the fate " of many great and many good “ men ; that although he does not " move ...
... hope make his heart fick ; ho- neft , though unrequited effort , will afford folid comfort . He " may confole himself , with re- “ flecting , that he shares the fate " of many great and many good “ men ; that although he does not " move ...
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... hope , health , " and happinefs , facrificed in the " fervice of my country . " formance , thus to experience the degrading treatment of delinquen- cy and guilt . What must have been the tortures of tafte and fen- fibility , when ...
... hope , health , " and happinefs , facrificed in the " fervice of my country . " formance , thus to experience the degrading treatment of delinquen- cy and guilt . What must have been the tortures of tafte and fen- fibility , when ...
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... hope is , that your " honours would charitably move " the governor in my behalf to re- " mit the fine . All " It is not , I confefs , the first " time that I have been dragged " before this court on the fame ac- count ; I have paid ...
... hope is , that your " honours would charitably move " the governor in my behalf to re- " mit the fine . All " It is not , I confefs , the first " time that I have been dragged " before this court on the fame ac- count ; I have paid ...
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... hope , that he would this day " have appeared on the bench , to C6 try to moderate the court in my " favour . 66 But you will tell me what I " have often been told , that were " there no act of affembly in the " cafe , the precepts of ...
... hope , that he would this day " have appeared on the bench , to C6 try to moderate the court in my " favour . 66 But you will tell me what I " have often been told , that were " there no act of affembly in the " cafe , the precepts of ...
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Страница 222 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Страница 149 - This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of.
Страница 203 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница 204 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red.
Страница 203 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Страница 222 - ... and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Страница 46 - Exert not your curiosity too early : it is in your power to make me grateful on certain terms. I have friends who are faithful ; but they do not bark before they bite.
Страница 71 - I see the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains!
Страница 66 - Sir, there is as much evidence for the existence of spirits as against it. You may not believe it, but you cannot deny it.