A Tale of the Times, المجلد 1T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799 |
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الصفحة 97 - True dignity is his, whose tranquil mind Virtue has rais'd above the things below ; Who, every hope and fear to Heaven resign'd, Shrinks not, though Fortune aim her deadliest blow .' This strain from 'midst the rocks was heard to flow In solemn sounds.
الصفحة 40 - Whene'er with foft ferenity fhe fmil'd, . Or caught the orient blufh of quick furprize, How fweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid luftre darted from her eyes ? Each look, each motion wak'da new-born grace, That o'er her form its tranfient glory caft: Some lovelier wonder foon ufurp'd the place, Chas'd by a charm Itill lovelier than the Lft.
الصفحة 17 - Where his long allies peep'd upon the main. In this calm feat he drew the healthful gale, Here mix'd the chief, the patriot, and the fwain. The happy monarch of his fylvan train, Here, fided by the guardians of the fold, He walk'd his rounds, and chear'd his bleft domain : His days, the days of unftain'd nature, roll'd, Replete with peace and joy, like patriarchs of old.
الصفحة 81 - Bridget bltflcd her goodnefs, and began an harangue on his lordfhip's virtues, which her miftrefs fflenced with a look, and fhe retired. The opener of Pandora's box was a gentleman. Let the gentlemen therefore behold one of the fex whom they brand with the ftigma of curiofity, fitting with a Pandora's box fealed before her, yet forbearing to lift the interdicted lid. She wrote a few lines which...
الصفحة 49 - ... never made the indulgences of Mifs Powerfcourt the model for the regulation of her own enjoyments and defires. She had read much, fhe had thought more ; her leifure for ftudy and reflection was greater than her friend's, and her mind imperceptibly acquired fuperior energy. Her knowledge of the world was confined to. the manor-houfe and the rectory ; at the former fhe fometirr.es met mixed characters -, her fcnfibility made her ftrongly feel their improprieties, and her fincerity generally betrayed...
الصفحة 157 - If Folly grow romantic, I muft paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Chufe a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere fhe change, the Cynthia of this minute...
الصفحة 29 - Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a " brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other. " The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, " Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; " With here a Fountain, never to be play'd ; " And there a Summer-houfe* that knows no " fhade; " Here Amphitrite fails through myrtle bow'rs ; " There Gladiators fight, or die in flow'rs ; " Unwater'd fee the drooping fea-horfe mourn, *' Andfwallows rooft in Nilus
الصفحة 99 - I might alfo call upon the fbilofopbers of the new lchool, and afk the illuftrious fophifts if they can form a paradox more perfectly incomprehenfible. But, notwithftanding my paffionate love of fame compels me to adopt the moft fafhionable, that is, the certain method of obtaining it, I cannot quite conquer the common foible of old people...
الصفحة 45 - Evans, and to the tender friendfhip of her daughter Lucy, that her mind was indebted for its richeft treafures. At the age of feventeen fhe appeared an enchanting beauty ; polite, fenfible...
الصفحة 43 - She, in contrast, identifies her efforts as writer and polemicist not with the insouciant freedom assumed by "modern novelists," but with the obligation of the "lesser fry [to] submit to some precautions, or endure the harder alternative of annihilation. Our morose taskmasters . . . impose upon us the hard laws of having a beginning, a middle, and an end" (Tale 1.99) - the same "hard laws" of the "narrative way" which links "the muse of history and the muse of fiction.