The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, المجلد 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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الصفحة vii
... taken , that nothing should appear which could offend the most delicate mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the ...
... taken , that nothing should appear which could offend the most delicate mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the ...
الصفحة viii
... which the Essays , forming the Third and Fourth Volumes of the Gleaner , are taken , will be found enu- merated in an Advertisement prefixed to Volume the Third . TO VOL . I. No. INTRODUCTION I. Selkirk , Alexander viii INTRODUCTION .
... which the Essays , forming the Third and Fourth Volumes of the Gleaner , are taken , will be found enu- merated in an Advertisement prefixed to Volume the Third . TO VOL . I. No. INTRODUCTION I. Selkirk , Alexander viii INTRODUCTION .
الصفحة 7
... taken off the loneliness of his aspect , and quite altered the air of his face . : This plain man's story is a memorable ex- ample , that he is happiest who confines his wants to natural necessities ; and he that goes fur- ther in his ...
... taken off the loneliness of his aspect , and quite altered the air of his face . : This plain man's story is a memorable ex- ample , that he is happiest who confines his wants to natural necessities ; and he that goes fur- ther in his ...
الصفحة 17
... taken their oaths of it before a justice of the peace . I own , that I could not allow my- self to accept of this way of proof ; but they , good people , interpreted that only as if I had been ashamed to recant . I remember a poor ...
... taken their oaths of it before a justice of the peace . I own , that I could not allow my- self to accept of this way of proof ; but they , good people , interpreted that only as if I had been ashamed to recant . I remember a poor ...
الصفحة 18
... taken possession of some of his tenants ' houses for many years ; where they took the privilege of disturbing the family with all manner of noises , rattling of chains , clatter- ing of pewter ; and , in short , flinging the house out ...
... taken possession of some of his tenants ' houses for many years ; where they took the privilege of disturbing the family with all manner of noises , rattling of chains , clatter- ing of pewter ; and , in short , flinging the house out ...
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الصفحة 254 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
الصفحة 52 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
الصفحة 55 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
الصفحة 139 - Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy...
الصفحة 124 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
الصفحة 5 - ... for the supports of his body were easily attained, but the eager longings for seeing again the face of man, during the interval of craving bodily appetites, were hardly supportable. He grew dejected, languid, and melancholy, scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence, till by degrees, by the force of reason and frequent reading of the scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months, he grew thoroughly reconciled to his Condition.
الصفحة 55 - Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue...
الصفحة 322 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
الصفحة 177 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pur's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
الصفحة 38 - The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. What to the ear sublimer rapture brings, That strain alone the genuine Poet sings ; That form alone where glows peculiar grace, The genuine Painter condescends to trace : 10 No sordid theme will verse or paint admit, Unworthy colours, if unworthy wit.