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... reading the Newspa- pers . General reflections on the abuses of those daily intelligencers , Dinner at Mr. Melfort's . Hard drinking . Mr. Umphraville's reflections on modern 76 77 manners , The effect of difficulty in attainment to ...
... reading the Newspa- pers . General reflections on the abuses of those daily intelligencers , Dinner at Mr. Melfort's . Hard drinking . Mr. Umphraville's reflections on modern 76 77 manners , The effect of difficulty in attainment to ...
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... readers , for giving it a place in this day's Mirror . MY DEAR SIR , THE moment that I found myself disengaged from business , you know I left the smoke and din of your blessed city , and hurried away to pure skies and quiet at my ...
... readers , for giving it a place in this day's Mirror . MY DEAR SIR , THE moment that I found myself disengaged from business , you know I left the smoke and din of your blessed city , and hurried away to pure skies and quiet at my ...
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... readers . SIR , TO THE AUTHOR OF THE MIRROR . MOST of your predecessors have favoured the public with speculations on travelling ; and they have been at pains to point out the abuses of it that from time to time have prevailed among us ...
... readers . SIR , TO THE AUTHOR OF THE MIRROR . MOST of your predecessors have favoured the public with speculations on travelling ; and they have been at pains to point out the abuses of it that from time to time have prevailed among us ...
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... readers will be best able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was ...
... readers will be best able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was ...
الصفحة 30
... reading or writing more than half an hour at a time . But , Sir , that the world may not entirely be de- prived of the fruits of my talents and experience , I have determined to send you some of my detached notes , and a few ...
... reading or writing more than half an hour at a time . But , Sir , that the world may not entirely be de- prived of the fruits of my talents and experience , I have determined to send you some of my detached notes , and a few ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affections agreeable amidst amusements Antonio appearance attended awake battle of Culloden behaviour bestowed called character circumstances companions conduct conversation Daniel Higgs death dinner dreams Duke of Cumberland elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged equally fashion father favour feelings Figure-making flattered Flint fortune French frequently friends gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulge JANUARY 22 Jemmy ladies learned lived lively colours look manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment mind Mirror Miss Juliana nature neighbour never nonsense verses object obliged observed occasion opinion passions perhaps persons pleasure racter readers received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sensible sentiment shew sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste Tatler temper thing thought tion torrent streams town trifles TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue wife wish write young
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الصفحة 181 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
الصفحة 184 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
الصفحة 152 - That care, however, which watched his health, was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders, than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
الصفحة 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
الصفحة 109 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth in a part of the army which was...
الصفحة 319 - She turned — and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor ; and when he took her hand, he cast on the earth a melancholy look, and seemed unable to speak his feelings. ' Are you not well, Sir Edward ?' said Louisa, with a voice faint and broken. — ' I am ill indeed,' said he, ' but my illness is of the mind.
الصفحة 165 - The Scottish dialect is our ordinary suit ; the English is used only on solemn occasions. When a Scotsman therefore writes, he does it generally in trammels. His own native original language, which he hears spoken around him, he does not make use of ; but he expresses himself in a language in some respects foreign to him, and which he has acquired by study and observation.
الصفحة 266 - ... of his uncle ; but his feeling, too powerful for his prudence, often breaks through that disguise which it seems to have been his original, and ought to have continued his invariable purpose to maintain, till an opportunity should present itself of accomplishing the revenge which he meditated.
الصفحة 321 - ... and to blunt, for a while, the pangs of contrition. These were deeply aggravated by the recollection of her father: a father left in his age to feel his own misfortunes and his daughter's disgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of providing for Venoni.
الصفحة 270 - IN books, whether moral or amusing, there are no passages more captivating, both to the writer and the reader, than those delicate strokes of sentimental morality, which refer our actions to the determination of feeling.