New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Volume 6, Parts 11-12C. and C. Whittingham, 1827 - Conduct of life |
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... thing is much better than I expected from the accounts I heard after I came to London . For the secrecy with which I stole away from Edinburgh , and which I thought necessary for preserving my in- terest there , kept me entirely ...
... thing is much better than I expected from the accounts I heard after I came to London . For the secrecy with which I stole away from Edinburgh , and which I thought necessary for preserving my in- terest there , kept me entirely ...
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... things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I could easily have multi- plied to a greater number , I doubt not but you are so good a Christian as to return good for evil ; and to flatter my vanity by telling ...
... things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I could easily have multi- plied to a greater number , I doubt not but you are so good a Christian as to return good for evil ; and to flatter my vanity by telling ...
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... thing else your authority over me is without control . But with your ingenuity , you will scarce contrive to use me so ill , that I shall not still better bear it : and after all , you will find your- self obliged , from pity , or ...
... thing else your authority over me is without control . But with your ingenuity , you will scarce contrive to use me so ill , that I shall not still better bear it : and after all , you will find your- self obliged , from pity , or ...
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... thing of the names of Boufflers , except that of the famous and virtuous marshal of the last reign . Is it not strange , that I should think my attention to him an incumbrance on the present occasion ? 16 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... thing of the names of Boufflers , except that of the famous and virtuous marshal of the last reign . Is it not strange , that I should think my attention to him an incumbrance on the present occasion ? 16 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... things to people that trouble him : he is also too delicate in the commerce of life : he is apt to en- tertain groundless suspicions of his best friends ; and his lively imagination , working upon them , feigns chimeras , and pushes him ...
... things to people that trouble him : he is also too delicate in the commerce of life : he is apt to en- tertain groundless suspicions of his best friends ; and his lively imagination , working upon them , feigns chimeras , and pushes him ...
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Page 202 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Page 48 - The Curchod (Madame Necker) I saw at Paris. She was very fond of me, and the husband particularly civil. Could they insult me more cruelly ? Ask me every evening to supper ; go to bed, and leave me alone with his wife — what an impertinent security ! it is making an old lover of mighty little consequence.
Page 342 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 266 - Until very lately, I had never heard any thing of your proceedings from others ; and when I did, it was much less than I had known from yourself, that you had been upon ill terms with the artists and virtuosi in Rome, without much mention of cause or consequence. • If you have improved these unfortunate quarrels to your advancement in your art, you have turned a very disagreeable circumstance to a very capital advantage. However you may have succeeded in this uncommon attempt, permit me to suggest...
Page 178 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...
Page 308 - On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless Victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below ; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 199 - Ellis's place, but he is saved. The city, however, have a mind to be out of humour; a paper has been fixed on the Royal Exchange, with these words, " No petticoat government, no Scotch minister, no Lord George Sackville ; " two hints totally unfounded, and the other scarce true.
Page 207 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and postchaises, which, if they have abridged the king's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects...
Page 135 - We cannot do without you. If you do not come here, I will bring all the club over to Ireland, to live with you, and that will drive you here in your own defence. Johnson shall spoil your books, Goldsmith pull your flowers, and Boswell talk to you: stay then, if you can.
Page 133 - You see plainly, what he meant to say, but that happy turn of expression is peculiar to himself. Mr. Walpole says, that this story is a picture of Goldsmith's whole life. Johnson has been confined for some weeks in the Isle of Sky ; we hear that he was obliged to swim over to the main land, taking hold of a cow's tail. Be that as it may, Lady Dif has promised to make a drawing of it.