The Asclepiad. v. 4, 1887, Том 4

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Longmans, Green, 1887
 

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Страница 158 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Страница 141 - Warburton laments its miscarriage, as an event very disastrous to polite letters. If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot, with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented ; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practised, that they are not known...
Страница 158 - ... each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath...
Страница 159 - I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, and an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust at the world ; for I have as great comfort in my own family and from the kindness of my friends as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country.
Страница 331 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Страница 156 - An Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput, together with the History and Character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-keeper.
Страница 220 - As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place.
Страница 158 - I have nothing to repay my friends with at present but prayers and good wishes. I have the satisfaction to find that I am as officiously served by my friends, as he that has thousands to leave in legacies ; besides the assurance of their sincerity.
Страница 152 - A brief account of Mr. John Ginglicutt's treatise concerning the altercation or scolding of the ancients, 1731.
Страница 142 - I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller, than death was to her...

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