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Page ix
... himself for his journey . And although this encouragement ended in nothing bene- ficial , it ferved for the prefent as a good pretext , to cover the imprudence of committing himself to the wide world , unfriended and unpatronifed , and ...
... himself for his journey . And although this encouragement ended in nothing bene- ficial , it ferved for the prefent as a good pretext , to cover the imprudence of committing himself to the wide world , unfriended and unpatronifed , and ...
Page x
... himself was a mere nevice in fuch matters , he was kindly affifted by Mr. Mallet , then private tutor to his Grace the Duke of Montrofe , and his brother the Lord George Graham , fo well known afterwards as an able and gallant fea ...
... himself was a mere nevice in fuch matters , he was kindly affifted by Mr. Mallet , then private tutor to his Grace the Duke of Montrofe , and his brother the Lord George Graham , fo well known afterwards as an able and gallant fea ...
Page xiv
... himself . Our author's poetical ftudies were now to be inter- rupted , or rather improved , by his attendance on the Honourable Mr. Charles Talbot in his travels . A de- lightful task indeed ! endowed as that young nobleman was by ...
... himself . Our author's poetical ftudies were now to be inter- rupted , or rather improved , by his attendance on the Honourable Mr. Charles Talbot in his travels . A de- lightful task indeed ! endowed as that young nobleman was by ...
Page xv
... himself more than upon all his other writings . While Mr. Thomson was writing the First Part of Liberty , he received a fevere fhock , by the death of his noble friend and fellow - traveller ; which was foon followed by another that was ...
... himself more than upon all his other writings . While Mr. Thomson was writing the First Part of Liberty , he received a fevere fhock , by the death of his noble friend and fellow - traveller ; which was foon followed by another that was ...
Page xvi
... himself , from an eafy competency , red iced to a ftate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the remainder of his life ; excepting only the two laft years of it , during which he enjoyed the place of Surveyor - General of the ...
... himself , from an eafy competency , red iced to a ftate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the remainder of his life ; excepting only the two laft years of it , during which he enjoyed the place of Surveyor - General of the ...
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Page 236 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Page 271 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 234 - Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Page 232 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 43 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature.
Page 261 - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's * fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared!) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars.
Page 174 - Acasto's line ; and to my mind Recalls that patron of my happy life, From whom my liberal fortune took its rise; Now to the dust gone down ; his houses, lands, And once fair-spreading family, dissolved.
Page 82 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 102 - Urg'd to the giddy brink, much is the toil, The clamour much, of men, and boys, and dogs, Ere the soft fearful people to the flood Commit their woolly sides.
Page 236 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.