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... sense . He is naturally bold and enterprising ; but so justly discreet , that he never acts or speaks anything , but those who behold him know he has forborn much more than he has performed or uttered , out of deference to the persons ...
... sense . He is naturally bold and enterprising ; but so justly discreet , that he never acts or speaks anything , but those who behold him know he has forborn much more than he has performed or uttered , out of deference to the persons ...
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... sense of all the world received at that time a present more valuable than the possession of both the Indies . She was then in her early bloom , with an understanding and discretion very little inferior to the most experienced matrons ...
... sense of all the world received at that time a present more valuable than the possession of both the Indies . She was then in her early bloom , with an understanding and discretion very little inferior to the most experienced matrons ...
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... sense of seeing this town no more , and would think her life ended as soon as she left it . He communicated his design to Elmira , who received it ( as now she did all things ) like a person too unhappy to be relieved or afflicted by ...
... sense of seeing this town no more , and would think her life ended as soon as she left it . He communicated his design to Elmira , who received it ( as now she did all things ) like a person too unhappy to be relieved or afflicted by ...
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... sense , or bearing the habit of sorrow , for one who robbed her of all the endearments of life , and gave her only common civility , instead of complacency of manners , dignity of passion , and that constant assemblage of soft desires ...
... sense , or bearing the habit of sorrow , for one who robbed her of all the endearments of life , and gave her only common civility , instead of complacency of manners , dignity of passion , and that constant assemblage of soft desires ...
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... sense , assembled themselves on this occasion . Mr. Caswell1 being a gentleman particularly curious , desired the ... senses , or the advantage of discovering his friends . by their voices . Among several others , the mother , brethren ...
... sense , assembled themselves on this occasion . Mr. Caswell1 being a gentleman particularly curious , desired the ... senses , or the advantage of discovering his friends . by their voices . Among several others , the mother , brethren ...
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Page 380 - Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears - why she, even she (O God!
Page 380 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my 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. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 406 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 315 - His mother, between laughing and chiding, would have put him out of the room; but I would not part with him so. I found, upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old.
Page 16 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 316 - ... for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son : and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the...
Page 311 - ... daughters ; upon which, the gentleman, my friend, said, ' Nay ; if Mr. Bickerstaff marries a child of any of his old companions, I hope mine shall have the preference : there is Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them. But I know him too well ; he is so...
Page 170 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Page 333 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.