Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 - Booksellers and bookselling |
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... true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and imper- fections ( which by the bye , few authors are so sensible of as their readers ) and not unfrequently endeavouring to ...
... true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and imper- fections ( which by the bye , few authors are so sensible of as their readers ) and not unfrequently endeavouring to ...
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... true Parnassian bullies , " De Scudery stands one of the foremost ; he concludes his preface to the works of his friend Theophile , with these re- markable words , " I do not hesitate to declare that , amongst all the dead and all the ...
... true Parnassian bullies , " De Scudery stands one of the foremost ; he concludes his preface to the works of his friend Theophile , with these re- markable words , " I do not hesitate to declare that , amongst all the dead and all the ...
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... true portrait - painter ; and on that ac- count I should most certainly have considered it as unworthy notice , had they not daubed me with false features . This at once determined my wavering resolution , and I am now fully resolved to ...
... true portrait - painter ; and on that ac- count I should most certainly have considered it as unworthy notice , had they not daubed me with false features . This at once determined my wavering resolution , and I am now fully resolved to ...
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... true , would add nothing to my merits , I shall for the present only say , that I was born at Wellington in Somersetshire , on the 31st of August , ( old style ) 1746. My father , George Lackington , was a journeyman shoemaker , who had ...
... true , would add nothing to my merits , I shall for the present only say , that I was born at Wellington in Somersetshire , on the 31st of August , ( old style ) 1746. My father , George Lackington , was a journeyman shoemaker , who had ...
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... true tone of the fish - woman , to the great surprise of the congregation ; but the good doctor was so studious and absent , that he knew not what he had done . Yours , & c . LETTER IV . " Who gather round , and wonder at the tale Of ...
... true tone of the fish - woman , to the great surprise of the congregation ; but the good doctor was so studious and absent , that he knew not what he had done . Yours , & c . LETTER IV . " Who gather round , and wonder at the tale Of ...
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Page 344 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 291 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 220 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
Page 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.
Page 50 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...