The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, المجلد 2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... reading the news- papers-- General reflections on the abuses of those daily intelligencers 76. Dinner at Mr. Melfort's - Hard drink- ing- Mr. Umphraville's reflections on modern manners · 77. The effect of difficulty in attainment to ...
... reading the news- papers-- General reflections on the abuses of those daily intelligencers 76. Dinner at Mr. Melfort's - Hard drink- ing- Mr. Umphraville's reflections on modern manners · 77. The effect of difficulty in attainment to ...
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... his station nor his fortune entitle him to associate in the after - part of his life . The following letter on this subject may , perhaps , be acceptable to my readers . VOL . II . B SIR , TO THE AUTHOR OF THE MIRROR . Most.
... his station nor his fortune entitle him to associate in the after - part of his life . The following letter on this subject may , perhaps , be acceptable to my readers . VOL . II . B SIR , TO THE AUTHOR OF THE MIRROR . Most.
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... readers will be best able to judge whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself ...
... readers will be best able to judge whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself ...
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... reading or writing more than half an hour at a time . But , sir , that the world may not be entirely 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 be entirely 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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... Reading , though , as a food , it is gross and of hard digestion , may be taken with much advantage , in small doses , both as a cordial , and as an opiate . For the former of these purposes , I would recommend a complete set of jest ...
... Reading , though , as a food , it is gross and of hard digestion , may be taken with much advantage , in small doses , both as a cordial , and as an opiate . For the former of these purposes , I would recommend a complete set of jest ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affection agreeable allowed amidst amusement Antonio appearance attended battle of Culloden beauty called character circumstances companions conduct conversation daugh death dinner disposition dreams eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged entertainment equally fashion father favour FEBRUARY 19 feelings flattered fortune frequently friends friendship genius gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulgence JANUARY 15 JANUARY 23 ladies learned lived lively colours look Louisa manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment merit mind MIRROR nature nerally ness never nonsense verses object obliged observed opinion paper passions perhaps persons Phædo pleasure possessed racter received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sentiments sign-post Sir Edward sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste TATLER thing thought tion torrent streams town TUESDAY Umphraville virtue wife wish writing young
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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.