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... Garden of One's Own - Shen- stone - Second Banter of Formal Apologies PAGE • 119 121 . 123 ADVANTAGES OF CULTIVATING ... Garden . From a Letter to Evelyn . Cowley . 178 Thoughts on Retirement . From one of his Letters Sir W. Temple . 183 ...
... Garden of One's Own - Shen- stone - Second Banter of Formal Apologies PAGE • 119 121 . 123 ADVANTAGES OF CULTIVATING ... Garden . From a Letter to Evelyn . Cowley . 178 Thoughts on Retirement . From one of his Letters Sir W. Temple . 183 ...
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... garden . The bride- groom's man knew his master would leave the place on a sudden after the wedding , and seeing him draw his pistols the night before , took this opportunity to go into his chamber and charge them . Upon their return ...
... garden . The bride- groom's man knew his master would leave the place on a sudden after the wedding , and seeing him draw his pistols the night before , took this opportunity to go into his chamber and charge them . Upon their return ...
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... garden , they went into that room ; and after a little fond raillery on the subject of their courtship , the lover took up a pistol , which he knew he had unloaded the night before , and , presenting it to her , said , with the most ...
... garden , they went into that room ; and after a little fond raillery on the subject of their courtship , the lover took up a pistol , which he knew he had unloaded the night before , and , presenting it to her , said , with the most ...
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... Garden , frequented by the wits . It occupied the south - west corner of Bow Street ; and was the house that Dryden had frequented . † The tavern mentioned in the pleasant story of the " Medicine " in the first volume of the Tatler , No ...
... Garden , frequented by the wits . It occupied the south - west corner of Bow Street ; and was the house that Dryden had frequented . † The tavern mentioned in the pleasant story of the " Medicine " in the first volume of the Tatler , No ...
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... garden to it , parterres of flowers , lavender , & c . , and good sized old- fashioned rooms , with smaller ones in corners , to choose according as you are few or many , or wish to be roomy or snug . Hazlitt , who loved to escape from ...
... garden to it , parterres of flowers , lavender , & c . , and good sized old- fashioned rooms , with smaller ones in corners , to choose according as you are few or many , or wish to be roomy or snug . Hazlitt , who loved to escape from ...
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Page 138 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 226 - THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear — He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd), a friend.
Page 29 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Page 138 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Page 225 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Page 177 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep...
Page 136 - Ye distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade -Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade...
Page 68 - A person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.
Page 151 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of...
Page 153 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.