Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell, 1825 |
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... human species , a desire to create happiness and to wit- ness it ; a life undisturbed by passion , and spent in doing good ; pleasures which centered in elegant conversation , in bountiful hos- pitality , in the exchange of all the ...
... human species , a desire to create happiness and to wit- ness it ; a life undisturbed by passion , and spent in doing good ; pleasures which centered in elegant conversation , in bountiful hos- pitality , in the exchange of all the ...
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... human nature , most unpleasing to a candid and enlightened reader . Excepting against Fielding , Richardson seems to have nourished no literary feud . But it is to be regretted , that , in his Correspondence , we find few traces that he ...
... human nature , most unpleasing to a candid and enlightened reader . Excepting against Fielding , Richardson seems to have nourished no literary feud . But it is to be regretted , that , in his Correspondence , we find few traces that he ...
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... humanity . Besides his family misfortunes , Richardson was afflicted with indifferent health , in the painful shape ... human life . On the 4th of July , 1761 , Samuel Richardson died , aged seventy - two , and was buried , according to ...
... humanity . Besides his family misfortunes , Richardson was afflicted with indifferent health , in the painful shape ... human life . On the 4th of July , 1761 , Samuel Richardson died , aged seventy - two , and was buried , according to ...
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... human frailty , cannot be too highly estimated . It remains only to consider him as an author , and , for this purpose , to review his literary career , and the productions which it gave rise to . It was by mere accident that Richardson ...
... human frailty , cannot be too highly estimated . It remains only to consider him as an author , and , for this purpose , to review his literary career , and the productions which it gave rise to . It was by mere accident that Richardson ...
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... human countenance , and placed them before us bare- faced , in all the actual changes of feature and complexion , and all the light and shade of human passion . It requires a reader to be in some degree acquainted with the huge folios ...
... human countenance , and placed them before us bare- faced , in all the actual changes of feature and complexion , and all the light and shade of human passion . It requires a reader to be in some degree acquainted with the huge folios ...
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Page 444 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 381 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page 177 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly: There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy!
Page 40 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 444 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 233 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Page 120 - I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years
Page 444 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 444 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
Page 177 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.