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... sense of our Transient Condition , and a resignation to His Will , which only can regulate our minds to a steddy endeavour to please each other . I am for ever Ye Faithful Ser11 , MADAM R : STEELE ' . Sepbr . 1st , 1707 . Sut JAMES'S ...
... sense of our Transient Condition , and a resignation to His Will , which only can regulate our minds to a steddy endeavour to please each other . I am for ever Ye Faithful Ser11 , MADAM R : STEELE ' . Sepbr . 1st , 1707 . Sut JAMES'S ...
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... sense of glory , and sacrificed to the Muses when they entered upon any great 30 enterprise . They would have the commemoration of their actions be transmitted by the purest and most untainted memo- rialists . The din which attends ...
... sense of glory , and sacrificed to the Muses when they entered upon any great 30 enterprise . They would have the commemoration of their actions be transmitted by the purest and most untainted memo- rialists . The din which attends ...
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... sense agree in admiring men for having what they themselves would rather be possessed of ; the wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the rest of the world him who is most wealthy . When a man is in this way of thinking ...
... sense agree in admiring men for having what they themselves would rather be possessed of ; the wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the rest of the world him who is most wealthy . When a man is in this way of thinking ...
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... sense of love , so do you now with the true sense of glory . As desire had the least part in the passion I heretofore professed towards you , so has vanity no share in the glory to which you have now raised me . Innocence , knowledge ...
... sense of love , so do you now with the true sense of glory . As desire had the least part in the passion I heretofore professed towards you , so has vanity no share in the glory to which you have now raised me . Innocence , knowledge ...
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... sense of their own integrity , without regard to 20 the opinion of others . If we have not such a foundation as this , there is no help against scandal but being in obscurity , which to noble minds is not being at all . The truth of it ...
... sense of their own integrity , without regard to 20 the opinion of others . If we have not such a foundation as this , there is no help against scandal but being in obscurity , which to noble minds is not being at all . The truth of it ...
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Page 142 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 415 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 142 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 110 - ... his tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company...
Page 109 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Page 113 - This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company, but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man, who is usually called a well-bred fine gentleman. To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest, worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company, for he visits us but seldom; but when he does, it adds...
Page 112 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Page 145 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Page 470 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 145 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.