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... character of Anselmo is amply expressed in the lines- There was no worldly feeling in his eye , - The world to him " was as a thing gone by . " The lessons of piety and resignation by which he instructs his young con- vert Lautaro , and ...
... character of Anselmo is amply expressed in the lines- There was no worldly feeling in his eye , - The world to him " was as a thing gone by . " The lessons of piety and resignation by which he instructs his young con- vert Lautaro , and ...
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... character of its ministers , over the population of large towns , to that exercised in coun- try parishes , is a numerous and well- appointed agency . By dividing his parish into small manageable dis- tricts and assigning one or more of ...
... character of its ministers , over the population of large towns , to that exercised in coun- try parishes , is a numerous and well- appointed agency . By dividing his parish into small manageable dis- tricts and assigning one or more of ...
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... character of these Scribblers , that may give the caution to Booksellers , and take off a most wretched scandal from the trade in general . How- ever , though I have met with temptations enough of this nature , to grow rich by knavery ...
... character of these Scribblers , that may give the caution to Booksellers , and take off a most wretched scandal from the trade in general . How- ever , though I have met with temptations enough of this nature , to grow rich by knavery ...
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... character of its own peculiar pursuits ; unless it may be thought , that , with a people , as in the case of an individual , too much curiosity of self - examination may both enfeeble and mislead the mind . Yet to a peo- ple , as well ...
... character of its own peculiar pursuits ; unless it may be thought , that , with a people , as in the case of an individual , too much curiosity of self - examination may both enfeeble and mislead the mind . Yet to a peo- ple , as well ...
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... character . The science which has chiefly flourished amongst us , which may be said almost displacing all others , to overspread the land , the science of the intimate ana- lysis of natural bodies , perhaps by its ready application to ...
... character . The science which has chiefly flourished amongst us , which may be said almost displacing all others , to overspread the land , the science of the intimate ana- lysis of natural bodies , perhaps by its ready application to ...
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Page 271 - And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. 30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: 31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Page 354 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe; He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime When like Apollo he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Page 2 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old, rude song that suited well That ruin wild and hoary.
Page 57 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 139 - More graceful than her own. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark /Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Page 179 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.