The Little Female Orators, Or Nine Evenings Entertainment, with ObservationsT. Carnan, 1778 - 106 sider |
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... Arms , and excrcifed by the following Words of Command : Handle your Fans . Unfurl your Fans . Difcharge your Fans . Ground your Fans . Recover your Fans . Flutter your Fans . D BY By the right Obfervation of these few plain Words of ...
... Arms , and excrcifed by the following Words of Command : Handle your Fans . Unfurl your Fans . Difcharge your Fans . Ground your Fans . Recover your Fans . Flutter your Fans . D BY By the right Obfervation of these few plain Words of ...
Side 39
... Arm fall into an easy Mo- tion , and ftands in Readiness to receive the next Word of Command . All this is done with a clofe Fan , and is generally learned in the first Week . The next Motion is that of , Unfurl your Fans : In which are ...
... Arm fall into an easy Mo- tion , and ftands in Readiness to receive the next Word of Command . All this is done with a clofe Fan , and is generally learned in the first Week . The next Motion is that of , Unfurl your Fans : In which are ...
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... Arms , catch them up in a Hurry , and place themfelves in their proper Stations , upon my calling out , Recover your Fans . This Part of the Exercife is not difficult , provided a young Lady applies her . Thoughts to it . The fluttering ...
... Arms , catch them up in a Hurry , and place themfelves in their proper Stations , upon my calling out , Recover your Fans . This Part of the Exercife is not difficult , provided a young Lady applies her . Thoughts to it . The fluttering ...
Side 44
... Arm : Then he is utterly mistaken in what the faw , falls back , fmiles at her own Folly , and is fo wholly discompofed , that her Tucker is to be adjusted , and the whole Wo- man put into new Airs and Graces . While fhe was doing all ...
... Arm : Then he is utterly mistaken in what the faw , falls back , fmiles at her own Folly , and is fo wholly discompofed , that her Tucker is to be adjusted , and the whole Wo- man put into new Airs and Graces . While fhe was doing all ...
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... Arms were stretched out towards him , Floods of Tears ran down her Eyes ; her Looks , her Hands , her Voice , called him over to her , and at the fame Time feemed to tell him , that the River was unpaffable , Who 1 Who can defcribe the ...
... Arms were stretched out towards him , Floods of Tears ran down her Eyes ; her Looks , her Hands , her Voice , called him over to her , and at the fame Time feemed to tell him , that the River was unpaffable , Who 1 Who can defcribe the ...
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Side 31 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Side 31 - ... on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. 'The Genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge...
Side 32 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Side 30 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Side 33 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Side 27 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and' qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Side 32 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Side 31 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Side 27 - I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a genius and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible...
Side 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.