The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 12H.D. Symonds, 1801 |
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... seem now to flow in channels which cannot easily be interrupted . More just views of the Supreme Being are entertained , and clearer notions indulged respecting the rights and privileges of humanity . Man will henceforward become more ...
... seem now to flow in channels which cannot easily be interrupted . More just views of the Supreme Being are entertained , and clearer notions indulged respecting the rights and privileges of humanity . Man will henceforward become more ...
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... seems necessary that they should sweep along in some certain course , and in one collected mass . What then shall we think of that rich fountain , which , whilst it was poured out by so many differ- . ent channels , flowed through each ...
... seems necessary that they should sweep along in some certain course , and in one collected mass . What then shall we think of that rich fountain , which , whilst it was poured out by so many differ- . ent channels , flowed through each ...
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... seems anxious to attain ; name- ly , to live independent , in a decent , plentiful , and even elegant manner . There are so many weak- minded religionists , and Jemima is so particularly careful to select her disciples among persons who ...
... seems anxious to attain ; name- ly , to live independent , in a decent , plentiful , and even elegant manner . There are so many weak- minded religionists , and Jemima is so particularly careful to select her disciples among persons who ...
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... seem not what I was ; my external form is changed , but I am still the same within - my heart is unalter- able ! -Though now saluted as the Count of Bur- gundy , I feel myself the humble Henry still ! Peter . Son- Hen . May not the ...
... seem not what I was ; my external form is changed , but I am still the same within - my heart is unalter- able ! -Though now saluted as the Count of Bur- gundy , I feel myself the humble Henry still ! Peter . Son- Hen . May not the ...
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... seem desirous to widen the breach , forgetting , no doubt , the good old professional adage , that 66 a stitch in time ... seems as if placed upon a watch - tower to keep a good look - out for the company below . For the Monthly Visitor ...
... seem desirous to widen the breach , forgetting , no doubt , the good old professional adage , that 66 a stitch in time ... seems as if placed upon a watch - tower to keep a good look - out for the company below . For the Monthly Visitor ...
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Abenamar admiration Alexander Selkirk animals appears attention beauty breast called celebrated character charms Count of Burgundy cried Damberger daughter David Garrick dear death Earl eyes fame father favour Garrick genius give hand happy head heart heaven honour hope horses human Jemima Wilkinson kind king lady late live Liverpool London Lord LORD ROKEBY mankind manner master ment merchant mind Miss Monthly Visitor nature ne'er never night o'er occasion once Parnassian passion Patten performed persons pleasing pleasure poem poet poor present Prince Potemkin quadruped racter readers received respect Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD ROBERT BURNS Robinson Sallo says scene shew sleep soon soul sweet talents tears theatre thee thing Thomas Rodd thou tion Travels turn united kingdom virtue whilst Whitstable WILLIAM COWPER wish young youth
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Page 110 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 250 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 249 - Been hurt by th' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live. Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here much I ruminate, as much I may, With other views of men and manners now Than once, and others of a life to come...
Page 280 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 331 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...
Page 210 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 331 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 210 - Robert and his younger brother Gilbert had been grounded a little in English, before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences...
Page 344 - He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling, as an event likely to happen very soon ; and which gave him concern chiefly from leaving his four children so young and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying in of a fifth.
Page 111 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.