Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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Page 35
... desire , however , a - day , will be sufficient to begin , or to be instructed , and am far from less if you find any aversion . I think thinking myself perfect . using sugar with it might be bad ; if I beg you to return the book when ...
... desire , however , a - day , will be sufficient to begin , or to be instructed , and am far from less if you find any aversion . I think thinking myself perfect . using sugar with it might be bad ; if I beg you to return the book when ...
Page 50
... desire after better that resignation to his will which things than are to be found in a world none but Himself can give , and which polluted with sin , and therefore de- he gives to none but his own children . voted to destruction . May ...
... desire after better that resignation to his will which things than are to be found in a world none but Himself can give , and which polluted with sin , and therefore de- he gives to none but his own children . voted to destruction . May ...
Page 106
... desire of public majesty of sound , which , to my ear , applause ; a desire of which I never is wonderfully delightful . It seems had any title to expect the gratifica- also very well adapted to the genius tion ; and which , though I ...
... desire of public majesty of sound , which , to my ear , applause ; a desire of which I never is wonderfully delightful . It seems had any title to expect the gratifica- also very well adapted to the genius tion ; and which , though I ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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Aberdeen acquaintance Adieu agreeable amusement Anna Seward beautiful believe Bishop of Gloucester bless Bradshaigh character charming Cicero comfort cousin dear friend dear sir delight desire Duchess of Portland Edward Gibbon Elizabeth Montagu England expect favour fear feel genius give glad grace happy haps hear heart Henry Kirke White honour hope Horace Walpole John Newton Johnson Jones kind lady ladyship Lausanne least less LETTER live London lord Lord Althorpe madam ment mind miss Montagu morning nature ness never night obliged occasion Olney perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor pray present racter reason received sensible sent Sir William Jones soon spirits suppose sure tell thank ther thing thought tion town truth verse Virgil William Unwin wish woman word write young