The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Том 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... beauty , and be queen of a mighty empire ; but , with all , unhappy : or , if you had rather , she shall be an ordinary , ugly , country creature , like yourself ; but contented with her condition . The mother immediately chose wit and ...
... beauty , and be queen of a mighty empire ; but , with all , unhappy : or , if you had rather , she shall be an ordinary , ugly , country creature , like yourself ; but contented with her condition . The mother immediately chose wit and ...
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... beauty . Her mother , who relied on the predictions of the fairy , began already to treat her as a queen , and spoiled her by flatteries . The young dam- sel would neither sew , nor spin , nor look after the sheep ; her whole amusement ...
... beauty . Her mother , who relied on the predictions of the fairy , began already to treat her as a queen , and spoiled her by flatteries . The young dam- sel would neither sew , nor spin , nor look after the sheep ; her whole amusement ...
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... beauty was not very extraordinary , were refused admittance ; and only thirty picked out , who infinitely surpassed all others . These thirty virgins were ranged in a great hall , in the figure of a half moon , that the king and his son ...
... beauty was not very extraordinary , were refused admittance ; and only thirty picked out , who infinitely surpassed all others . These thirty virgins were ranged in a great hall , in the figure of a half moon , that the king and his son ...
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... beauty multiplied on all sides , and that the prince might admire her wherever he cast his eyes . Florio in a few days quitted the chace , and all the manly exercises in which before he delighted , that he might be perpetually with his ...
... beauty multiplied on all sides , and that the prince might admire her wherever he cast his eyes . Florio in a few days quitted the chace , and all the manly exercises in which before he delighted , that he might be perpetually with his ...
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... the likeness of one of Invidessa's attendants . She desired the company to retire a while , and then spoke thus to Florella in secret : " Are 2 you willing to renounce that beauty which has proved so NO . 4 . 27 THE GLEANER .
... the likeness of one of Invidessa's attendants . She desired the company to retire a while , and then spoke thus to Florella in secret : " Are 2 you willing to renounce that beauty which has proved so NO . 4 . 27 THE GLEANER .
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Страница 254 - 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 52 - 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.
Страница 55 - 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 139 - 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...
Страница 124 - 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...
Страница 5 - ... 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.
Страница 55 - 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...
Страница 322 - 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...
Страница 177 - 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...
Страница 38 - 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.