The Adventurer, Volume 2S. Doig, 1793 |
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... told we sport with fable here ; Be told , that brutes can morals teach , And trees like foundest cafuifts preach . PHED . THOUGH it be generally allowed , that to communicate happiness is the characteristic of virtue , yet this happi ...
... told we sport with fable here ; Be told , that brutes can morals teach , And trees like foundest cafuifts preach . PHED . THOUGH it be generally allowed , that to communicate happiness is the characteristic of virtue , yet this happi ...
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... told me was the elyfium of birds and beafts . Here I beheld a great variety of animals , whom I perceived to be endowed with reafon and speech : this prodigy , however , did not raise aftonishment , but curiofity . I was impatient to ...
... told me was the elyfium of birds and beafts . Here I beheld a great variety of animals , whom I perceived to be endowed with reafon and speech : this prodigy , however , did not raise aftonishment , but curiofity . I was impatient to ...
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... told " him , that he would the next day produce a gelding " that should beat her : but what was my astonishment " and indignation , when I discovered that he most " cruelly and fraudulently intended to qualify me for " this match upon ...
... told " him , that he would the next day produce a gelding " that should beat her : but what was my astonishment " and indignation , when I discovered that he most " cruelly and fraudulently intended to qualify me for " this match upon ...
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... told me that he would take care to pre- vent his fortune from being fquandered upon prosti- tutes . Nothing now remained , but the chance of extricating myself by marriage ; a scheme which , I flatterred my- felf , nothing but my ...
... told me that he would take care to pre- vent his fortune from being fquandered upon prosti- tutes . Nothing now remained , but the chance of extricating myself by marriage ; a scheme which , I flatterred my- felf , nothing but my ...
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... told me with evident compunction and distress , " that he could not poffibly fulfil his promise , for that a very great man had recommended one of his domef- " tics , whofe folicitation for that reafon it was not in 46 " his power to ...
... told me with evident compunction and distress , " that he could not poffibly fulfil his promise , for that a very great man had recommended one of his domef- " tics , whofe folicitation for that reafon it was not in 46 " his power to ...
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Page 154 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 77 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 81 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 114 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 69 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 78 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 118 - I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Page 82 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Page 1 - I will meditate the reason of thy request; and may he who illuminates the mind of the humble, enable me to determine with wisdom.
Page 3 - I now descried a fox, whose two forelegs appeared to be broken. Before this fox the eagle laid part of a kid, which she had brought in her talons, and then disappeared.