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Page xxiii
... talking politicks and managing Stocks while all my Ambition , all my wealth is Love ! Love , which animates my Heart , sweetens my Humour , enlarges my Soul , and affects every Action of my Life . " Tis to my Lovely Charmer I owe that ...
... talking politicks and managing Stocks while all my Ambition , all my wealth is Love ! Love , which animates my Heart , sweetens my Humour , enlarges my Soul , and affects every Action of my Life . " Tis to my Lovely Charmer I owe that ...
Page xxiv
... talk of the judgement of the world ; I shall never govern my actions by it , but by the rules of morality and right reason . I love you better than the light of my eyes , or the life blood in my heart ; but , when I have let you know ...
... talk of the judgement of the world ; I shall never govern my actions by it , but by the rules of morality and right reason . I love you better than the light of my eyes , or the life blood in my heart ; but , when I have let you know ...
Page xxviii
... talk in a Mask . I shall not carry my Humility so far as to call myself a vicious Man ; but at the same Time must confess , my Life is at best but pardonable . And with no greater Character than this , a Man would make but an in ...
... talk in a Mask . I shall not carry my Humility so far as to call myself a vicious Man ; but at the same Time must confess , my Life is at best but pardonable . And with no greater Character than this , a Man would make but an in ...
Page xxxviii
... Talk , No. 4 . 3 Town - Talk , No. 4. It is with reference to the Censorium ( the theatre , not the entertainment named after it ) that Drake tells the following anecdote : - ' Sir Richard had constructed a very elegant theatre in his ...
... Talk , No. 4 . 3 Town - Talk , No. 4. It is with reference to the Censorium ( the theatre , not the entertainment named after it ) that Drake tells the following anecdote : - ' Sir Richard had constructed a very elegant theatre in his ...
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... Talk , the Tea - Table , and Chit - Chat ; none of which extended beyond a few numbers . In 1716 , after the suppression of the northern rebellion , he was made a Commissioner for the forfeited Estates , and spent some time in Scotland ...
... Talk , the Tea - Table , and Chit - Chat ; none of which extended beyond a few numbers . In 1716 , after the suppression of the northern rebellion , he was made a Commissioner for the forfeited Estates , and spent some time in Scotland ...
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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.