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... English for Iphigenía , as Virgil is for Virgilius . " I should not care , " said he , " if I was con- demned never to stir beyond a mile from St. Anne's hill for the rest of my life . " Very fond of the society of boys ; as also They ...
... English for Iphigenía , as Virgil is for Virgilius . " I should not care , " said he , " if I was con- demned never to stir beyond a mile from St. Anne's hill for the rest of my life . " Very fond of the society of boys ; as also They ...
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... English have the knowledge and the slavery too . Property will always have its influence . Were all the Landed men in the Country to unite in a mass , you will say that they might effect any- thing . Their income is twenty - five ...
... English have the knowledge and the slavery too . Property will always have its influence . Were all the Landed men in the Country to unite in a mass , you will say that they might effect any- thing . Their income is twenty - five ...
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... English Songs , by Dr. Aikin . 2 General John Burgoyne who commanded a part of the English army during the American war ; and signed the convention of Saratoga in October , 1777. M. P. for several years previous to his death , in 1792 ...
... English Songs , by Dr. Aikin . 2 General John Burgoyne who commanded a part of the English army during the American war ; and signed the convention of Saratoga in October , 1777. M. P. for several years previous to his death , in 1792 ...
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... English the most difficult of all languages- an union of many . Found King William wrote and Privy Councillor : a relation of Mr. Fox : minister to Vienna in 1806 , and on a mission to Constantinople in 1807 - died Oct. 1855 , aged 92 ...
... English the most difficult of all languages- an union of many . Found King William wrote and Privy Councillor : a relation of Mr. Fox : minister to Vienna in 1806 , and on a mission to Constantinople in 1807 - died Oct. 1855 , aged 92 ...
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... English articulate very ill . Gibbon , if anybody , mastered two languages . Milton not English - could never forgive him for expecting to interest him through twelve books , in which there was nothing like nature ; or for writing ...
... English articulate very ill . Gibbon , if anybody , mastered two languages . Milton not English - could never forgive him for expecting to interest him through twelve books , in which there was nothing like nature ; or for writing ...
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Page 11 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 183 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 10 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page xiii - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 48 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame.
Page 15 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 10 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 38 - From his broad bosom life and verdure flings. And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide...
Page 88 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...
Page 19 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.