La Belle Assemblée, Volumen2J. Bell, 1807 |
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... given the Figures in one of our two Plates of Fashion , COLOURED . This may be considered by some as a material improvement , others will estimate it more cheaply , but all must concur in pronouncing it a very heavy and additional ...
... given the Figures in one of our two Plates of Fashion , COLOURED . This may be considered by some as a material improvement , others will estimate it more cheaply , but all must concur in pronouncing it a very heavy and additional ...
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... given || able amusements , as religion will afford substan to objects which are no otherwise interesting than || tial consolation . A well spent youth is the only as they are necessary . The mind , in an hour of sure foundation of a ...
... given || able amusements , as religion will afford substan to objects which are no otherwise interesting than || tial consolation . A well spent youth is the only as they are necessary . The mind , in an hour of sure foundation of a ...
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... given them by my fa- ther ; and on the fourth died that father by the dagger of his son Adieu , stranger . " He pressed my hand at parting ; the copious tears trickled from his large blue eyes , and at- tested the truth of his narrative ...
... given them by my fa- ther ; and on the fourth died that father by the dagger of his son Adieu , stranger . " He pressed my hand at parting ; the copious tears trickled from his large blue eyes , and at- tested the truth of his narrative ...
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... given the power of language to her heart ; the latter has done more , he has imposed silence on her virtue , and gold has obtained what she could have re- fused to love . Luxury is therefore the first seed of corruption , especially in ...
... given the power of language to her heart ; the latter has done more , he has imposed silence on her virtue , and gold has obtained what she could have re- fused to love . Luxury is therefore the first seed of corruption , especially in ...
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... given her breath , especially at rising in the morning , a kind of odor not much less disagreeable than that of a fasting Jew . On this account she was accustomed to take the first thing after rising , and sometimes even before she was ...
... given her breath , especially at rising in the morning , a kind of odor not much less disagreeable than that of a fasting Jew . On this account she was accustomed to take the first thing after rising , and sometimes even before she was ...
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Página 39 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 102 - And who is He ? the vast, the awful form, Girt with the whirlwind, sandal'd with the storm A western cloud around His limbs is spread, His crown a rainbow, and a sun His head. To highest Heaven He lifts his kingly hand, And treads at once the ocean and the land ; And, hark ! His voice amid the thunder's roar, His dreadful voice, that time shall be no more...
Página 102 - Earth's utmost bounds confess their awful sway, The mountains worship, and the isles obey ; Nor sun nor moon they need, — nor day, nor night; — God is their temple, and the Lamb their light...
Página 31 - But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual powers or literary attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.
Página 99 - Almotana's tide ; The flinty waste, the cedar-tufted hill, The liquid health of smooth Ardeni's rill ; The grot, where, by the watch-fire's evening blaze, The robber riots, or the hermit prays ; Or where the tempest rives the hoary stone, The wintry top of giant Lebanon.
Página 13 - Custom, habit. — Custom, respects the action ; habit, the actor. By custom, we mean the frequent repetition of the same act : by habit, the effect which that repetition produces on the mind or body. By the custom of walking often in the streets, one acquires a habit of idleness.
Página 308 - Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his gude blue bonnet; Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet, Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. By this time he was 'cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro...
Página 13 - But if, from the desire of multiplying words, he will needs praise his courage and fortitude; at the moment he joins these words together, my idea begins to waver. He means to express one quality more strongly; but he is, in truth, expressing two. Courage resists danger; fortitude supports pain.
Página 100 - Fail'd the bright promise of your early day ? No : — by that sword, which, red with heathen gore, A giant spoil, the stripling champion bore ; By him, the chief to farthest India known, The mighty master...
Página 102 - E'en hoary priests the sacred combat wage, And clothe in steel the palsied arm of age...