Illustrations of Human Life, Volum 2H. Colburn, 1837 |
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Side 12
... feels much for him . " " Judge for yourself , " said my companion . " The gentleman is neither more nor less than a sentimental tuft hunter by disposition , and a very knavish usurer by profession ; perhaps the only one of his sort in ...
... feels much for him . " " Judge for yourself , " said my companion . " The gentleman is neither more nor less than a sentimental tuft hunter by disposition , and a very knavish usurer by profession ; perhaps the only one of his sort in ...
Side 26
... feel obliged to your lordship for paying so poor a compliment to my palate , which , in all my practice , never met with anything so admirable . Why , they are worthy Apicius . Your chef must be cordon bleu de son ordre ; and as for the ...
... feel obliged to your lordship for paying so poor a compliment to my palate , which , in all my practice , never met with anything so admirable . Why , they are worthy Apicius . Your chef must be cordon bleu de son ordre ; and as for the ...
Side 42
... feel whose pen is destined to provide their daily bread ? Yet of those , many might have had " Hearts once pregnant with celestial fire , " and might still know what it is to generate Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn , " 66 ...
... feel whose pen is destined to provide their daily bread ? Yet of those , many might have had " Hearts once pregnant with celestial fire , " and might still know what it is to generate Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn , " 66 ...
Side 54
... feel how much you lost in not meeting this smooth gentleman at Lord W's . " 66 I should like to know more of him , " said I. " What is his real character ? " " I know not , " answered Etheredge , " except , like Pope's women , that of ...
... feel how much you lost in not meeting this smooth gentleman at Lord W's . " 66 I should like to know more of him , " said I. " What is his real character ? " " I know not , " answered Etheredge , " except , like Pope's women , that of ...
Side 76
... feeling , or checked the full tide of their confidence and affection . And yet , though their occupations and amusements were the same , the real characters they thought so alike , were essentially different . One was pliant , if not ...
... feeling , or checked the full tide of their confidence and affection . And yet , though their occupations and amusements were the same , the real characters they thought so alike , were essentially different . One was pliant , if not ...
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Side 93 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Side 162 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Side 238 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth.
Side 273 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one hour more 't will be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Side 155 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Side 130 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Side 291 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Side 76 - Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn...
Side 270 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Side 304 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.