The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, المجلد 2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... hope I may say it without vanity ) with as great a share of knowledge as any of my contemporaries could boast of . The tour of Europe was the only thing wanting to complete my education . Intimately acquainted with the celebrated ...
... hope I may say it without vanity ) with as great a share of knowledge as any of my contemporaries could boast of . The tour of Europe was the only thing wanting to complete my education . Intimately acquainted with the celebrated ...
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... hope smiled before us unchecked by disappointment . The distance of the scene adds to our idea of its felicity , and in- creases the tenderness of its recollection ; ' tis like the view of a landscape by moonshine ; the distinctness of ...
... hope smiled before us unchecked by disappointment . The distance of the scene adds to our idea of its felicity , and in- creases the tenderness of its recollection ; ' tis like the view of a landscape by moonshine ; the distinctness of ...
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... hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have entertained that hope . Neither is it less wonderful that invention should be stretched to the utmost , in order to persuade mere strangers ...
... hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have entertained that hope . Neither is it less wonderful that invention should be stretched to the utmost , in order to persuade mere strangers ...
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... hope she will succeed ; the Miss Edwins appear to be good sort of girls , and will , I have no doubt , make excel- lent wives to some honest country squire , or some plodding man of business , who has no other idea of a wife than as a ...
... hope she will succeed ; the Miss Edwins appear to be good sort of girls , and will , I have no doubt , make excel- lent wives to some honest country squire , or some plodding man of business , who has no other idea of a wife than as a ...
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... hope , often found in the world ; but , in those changes and vicissitudes of life which open new views , and form new connexions , the old are apt to be weakened or forgotten . Family and domestic friend- ships , ' would he add with a ...
... hope , often found in the world ; but , in those changes and vicissitudes of life which open new views , and form new connexions , the old are apt to be weakened or forgotten . Family and domestic friend- ships , ' would he add with a ...
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الصفحة 266 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
الصفحة 180 - 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...
الصفحة 95 - Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe, Where, round some mouldering tower, pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies ; Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
الصفحة 177 - 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 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
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 261 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
الصفحة 262 - The time is out of joint ; — Oh cursed spite ! That ever I was born to set it right ! Nay, come, let's go together.
الصفحة 134 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
الصفحة 323 - if Louisa will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never cease to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more ; when this heart shall have forgot to love, and cease to be wretched.