Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Pagina vii
... less attracting because conveyed by supposed speaking characters under a dramatic form , than in a shape purely didactic ; possibly ( though that must depend upon the execution ) they may be more attracting . Religion has found favour ...
... less attracting because conveyed by supposed speaking characters under a dramatic form , than in a shape purely didactic ; possibly ( though that must depend upon the execution ) they may be more attracting . Religion has found favour ...
Pagina xi
... less burthen- some to the attention . In this respect I agree with a quaint old author , near two centuries ago , who , in his preface , ad- dresses himself thus : " To the knowing reader , touching the method of this discourse ...
... less burthen- some to the attention . In this respect I agree with a quaint old author , near two centuries ago , who , in his preface , ad- dresses himself thus : " To the knowing reader , touching the method of this discourse ...
Pagina 6
... club , which he said was exceedingly convenient for people of small fortune , but would be more agreeable if less heterogeneously composed . " However , " said 66 he , we cannot have every thing ; and 6 INTRODUCTION .
... club , which he said was exceedingly convenient for people of small fortune , but would be more agreeable if less heterogeneously composed . " However , " said 66 he , we cannot have every thing ; and 6 INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 22
... less exhibited , any discontent at being so buried , yet now and then , when chatting with a friend whose husband had removed to Bedford Row , she would confess that buried she was . At the same time , being of a moderate temper , and a ...
... less exhibited , any discontent at being so buried , yet now and then , when chatting with a friend whose husband had removed to Bedford Row , she would confess that buried she was . At the same time , being of a moderate temper , and a ...
Pagina 28
... less when , on inquiring of one of the scouts , he found that the two velvet caps who had thus slighted him were the Honourable Mr. Tylney and the Honourable Mr. Selwyn , sons of peers . Their names and titles gave him a feeling of ...
... less when , on inquiring of one of the scouts , he found that the two velvet caps who had thus slighted him were the Honourable Mr. Tylney and the Honourable Mr. Selwyn , sons of peers . Their names and titles gave him a feeling of ...
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Pictures of the World: At Home and Abroad (Classic Reprint) R. P. Ward Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2015 |
Pictures of the World at Home and Abroad Robert Plumer Ward Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2020 |
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Pagina 299 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Pagina 73 - And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Pagina 53 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Pagina 238 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Pagina 128 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Pagina 4 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Pagina 48 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Pagina 32 - Athenae non tam operibus magnificis exquisitisque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione summorum virorum, ubi quisque habitare, ubi sedere, ubi disputare sit solitus, studioseque eorum etiam sepulcra contemplor.
Pagina 73 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Pagina 72 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...