The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, المجلد 1C. Dilly, 1786 |
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الصفحة 265 - ... our daughter expire in agonies before our eyes, with the bitter aggravation of a double murder, for the child was alive within her. Are there words in language to express our lamentations...
الصفحة 224 - ... me ; but I forgive what he has done to me ; I can earn a maintenance, and am as happy in my...
الصفحة 259 - ... to call him by his own name, and this being done in his infancy, he was taught to believe that he was an orphan youth, the...
الصفحة 261 - I should be the worst of sinners, if I imputed it to them. — The judges upon this declared with one voice that he was trifling with the court, and gave orders for the rack; they would however for the...
الصفحة 262 - Inhuman wretches, delegates of hell and agents of the devil, make ready your engine for the guilty, and take off your bloody hands from the innocent, for behold!
الصفحة 217 - Garonne, and swimming to the assistance of his, when it was sinking in the middle of the stream. His passion for his mistress was no less vehement; so that his disappointment had every aggravation possible, and operating upon a nature more than commonly susceptible, reversed...
الصفحة 43 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean, There, where your argosies ' with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
الصفحة 259 - ... in her parents, had required him to order certain drugs from an apothecary, as if for himself, which he accordingly did, and he verily believed they were faithfully mixed, inasmuch as he stood by the man whilst he prepared the medicine, and saw every ingredient separately put in.
الصفحة 270 - ... puffers will set forth the cast-off mansion of a weary owner. Put a vicious, lame, and stumbling horse into their hands, and he comes out safe and sound the next morning, and is fit to carry the first lady in the land ; weed your collections of their copies and counterfeits, by the help of a persuasive tongue, quick eye, and energetic hammer, they are knocked down for originals and antiques, and the happy buyer bears them off delighted with his bargain.
الصفحة 264 - I received from the Brazils. At length, the father of Don Juan died, and by will bequeathed his fortune to me in failure of his son and his heirs.