An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including Many of His Original Letters, المجلد 3Archibald Constable and Company, 1807 |
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الصفحة 255 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
الصفحة 282 - Having expatiated, with his usual force and eloquence, on Mr. Garrick's extraordinary eminence as an actor, he concluded with this compliment to his social talents : "And after all, Madam, I thought him less to be envied on the stage than at the head of a table.
الصفحة 167 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship.
الصفحة 236 - Time, who is impatient to date my last paper, will shortly moulder the hand that is now writing it in the dust, and still the breast that now throbs at the reflection : but let not this be read as something that relates only to another ; for a few years only can divide the eye that is now reading from the hand that has written.
الصفحة 208 - Lybia's burning sand ? Or does some isle thy parting flight detain, Where roves the Indian through primeval shades, Haunts the pure pleasures of the sylvan reign, And led by reason's light the path of nature treads. IV.— 3. On Cuba's utmost steep Far leaning o'er the deep The Goddess
الصفحة 91 - More than my brother," for a quarter of a century, I dare not trust myself to speak of what he was to me; of what I know I was to him.
الصفحة 218 - Arcadian judges should their god condemn. Begin, auspicious boy ! to cast about Thy infant eyes, and, with a smile, thy mother single out. Thy mother well deserves that short delight, The nauseous qualms of ten long months and travail to requite. Then smile ! the frowning infant's doom is read, No god shall crown the board, nor goddess bless the bed.
الصفحة 85 - I am endeavouring to return, with the little ability that is left me, and with entire submission to the will of Providence, to the ordinary business of life. I have lost one who was always a pleasing companion ; but who. for the last five or six years, was one of the most entertaining and instructive companions that ever man was...
الصفحة 236 - But let not this be read as something *' that relates only to another ; for a few years " only can divide the eye that is now reading...
الصفحة 137 - Look at yourself,' I replied, 'and consider your hands and fingers, your legs and feet, and other limbs: are they not regular in their appearance, and useful to you ?' He said they were. ' Came you then hither,' said I, ' by chance ?' ' No,' he answered,' that cannot be : something must have made me.