Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].1812 |
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... hath absented himself so long from his friends , ought to be put in the Gazette . Every body here has great need of you . Many faces have died for want of your pencil , and bloom- ing ladies have withered in expecting your return . Even ...
... hath absented himself so long from his friends , ought to be put in the Gazette . Every body here has great need of you . Many faces have died for want of your pencil , and bloom- ing ladies have withered in expecting your return . Even ...
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... hath been sung by Ho- mer and Virgil , as making a considerable part of the travels and adventures of their two heroes . The islands Caprea , Prochyta , and Parthenope , together with Cajeta , Cuma , Monte Miseno , the habitations of ...
... hath been sung by Ho- mer and Virgil , as making a considerable part of the travels and adventures of their two heroes . The islands Caprea , Prochyta , and Parthenope , together with Cajeta , Cuma , Monte Miseno , the habitations of ...
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... hath deserted , yea , and in a rustic manner , kicked his Rosalinda . Dr. Parnelle and I have been inseparable ever since you went . We are now at the Bath , where ( if you are not , as I heartily hope , better engaged ) your coming ...
... hath deserted , yea , and in a rustic manner , kicked his Rosalinda . Dr. Parnelle and I have been inseparable ever since you went . We are now at the Bath , where ( if you are not , as I heartily hope , better engaged ) your coming ...
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... hath been the Ton of the whole town ever since : the pression sold in a week ; and nothing is erting than to hear the different opinions ive of it , though all agree in liking it ex- DOW It is generally said that you are the au- out I ...
... hath been the Ton of the whole town ever since : the pression sold in a week ; and nothing is erting than to hear the different opinions ive of it , though all agree in liking it ex- DOW It is generally said that you are the au- out I ...
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... hath passed four months this summer with two grave acquaintance at his country - house , without ever once going to Dublin , which is but eight miles distant : yet , when he returns to London , I will engage you will find him as deep in ...
... hath passed four months this summer with two grave acquaintance at his country - house , without ever once going to Dublin , which is but eight miles distant : yet , when he returns to London , I will engage you will find him as deep in ...
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Page 57 - I believe you have heard that, after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Page 69 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 68 - Sickness is a sort of early old age : it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Page 135 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
Page 12 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places; not considering that Nature loves troth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Page 256 - ... business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour, refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past, and even the present affairs of life stand like objects at a distance from me, where I can keep off the disagreeable so as not to be strongly affected by them, and from whence I can draw the others nearer to me...
Page 193 - I HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture : " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Page 135 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto, it becomes, on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera obscura ; on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture, in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Page 235 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe.
Page 206 - As for you, my good friend, I think, since our first acquaintance, there have not been any of those little suspicions or jealousies that often affect the sincerest friendships; I am sure not on my side. I must be so sincere as to own that, though I could not help valuing you for those talents which the world prizes, yet they were not the...