La Belle Assemblée, Volumen2J. Bell, 1807 |
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... and feel the pressure of some circumstances peculiarly unfavourable , which sour their temper and render them que- rulous , censorious , and discontented . I do not , ness to any other cause than that to which she 24 LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE ;
... and feel the pressure of some circumstances peculiarly unfavourable , which sour their temper and render them que- rulous , censorious , and discontented . I do not , ness to any other cause than that to which she 24 LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE ;
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... rendered complete . Every officious in- former , however , took care to demonstrate her aversion to scandal , by declaring , that " she would not , on any account , have her name brought into question , as all the world knew In a short ...
... rendered complete . Every officious in- former , however , took care to demonstrate her aversion to scandal , by declaring , that " she would not , on any account , have her name brought into question , as all the world knew In a short ...
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... rendered her an easy prey to the arts of the designing . Her principles were good ; but they were not fixed in her mind with sufficient strength to be resorted to as the support and guide of her life . She thought it requisite for her ...
... rendered her an easy prey to the arts of the designing . Her principles were good ; but they were not fixed in her mind with sufficient strength to be resorted to as the support and guide of her life . She thought it requisite for her ...
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... renders thei even a sensible infant of five or six years of age , more calculated for young children , than practices to begin immediately to play at sight a short pre- which require the frequent stretches of a seventh , lude and tune ...
... renders thei even a sensible infant of five or six years of age , more calculated for young children , than practices to begin immediately to play at sight a short pre- which require the frequent stretches of a seventh , lude and tune ...
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... renders them more sub- servient to the laws that govern them . " But among the number of arts and sciences , the above , in my opinion , is one of the most elegant accomplishments of the gentleman . Drawing is the art of justly ...
... renders them more sub- servient to the laws that govern them . " But among the number of arts and sciences , the above , in my opinion , is one of the most elegant accomplishments of the gentleman . Drawing is the art of justly ...
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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...