The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volum 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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Pàgina vii
... mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the Classical Essayists ; INTRODUCTION . vii Descriptions in poetry, the ...
... mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the Classical Essayists ; INTRODUCTION . vii Descriptions in poetry, the ...
Pàgina 2
... mind in that long solitude . When we consider how painful absence from company , for the space of but one evening , is to the generality of mankind , we may have a sense how painful this necessary and constant solitude was to a man bred ...
... mind in that long solitude . When we consider how painful absence from company , for the space of but one evening , is to the generality of mankind , we may have a sense how painful this necessary and constant solitude was to a man bred ...
Pàgina 13
... mind and vivacity required in a critick as in an author ; but delicacy alone can discover delicacy . An ordinary spectator is able to describe the fine mouth of Cleora ; the full eye , the open forehead of Chloe ; but who shall explain ...
... mind and vivacity required in a critick as in an author ; but delicacy alone can discover delicacy . An ordinary spectator is able to describe the fine mouth of Cleora ; the full eye , the open forehead of Chloe ; but who shall explain ...
Pàgina 15
... minds , without doing an in- jury to the stock they graft it upon , and re- moving the best principle of happiness at the same time with the worst and most fruitful of miseries . Neither can we say that this evil is 1 confined to the ...
... minds , without doing an in- jury to the stock they graft it upon , and re- moving the best principle of happiness at the same time with the worst and most fruitful of miseries . Neither can we say that this evil is 1 confined to the ...
Pàgina 22
... mind , shall be exquisitely handsome , excel in wit even more than in 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 ...
... mind , shall be exquisitely handsome , excel in wit even more than in 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 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.