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... employed in giving effect to the wishes and plans of the boy . " Thus it is , too , that the ambition of pointing a sentence often leads a writer to trans- gress the limits of sense . Had he sub- stituted indiscretion there would have ...
... employed in giving effect to the wishes and plans of the boy . " Thus it is , too , that the ambition of pointing a sentence often leads a writer to trans- gress the limits of sense . Had he sub- stituted indiscretion there would have ...
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... employed in making one ; nor was he , at least at that time , known as a trafficker with Jews , or an associate of ... employ it successfully ; and when he became manager , had , as the vulgar phrase is , the ball at his foot . Besides ...
... employed in making one ; nor was he , at least at that time , known as a trafficker with Jews , or an associate of ... employ it successfully ; and when he became manager , had , as the vulgar phrase is , the ball at his foot . Besides ...
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... employed in ro- mances to prolong the embarrassments of the dramatis personæ , and which per- haps are not in the present case very artificially interposed . Considering , as it proves to be the case , that Mrs Purcel was the guilty ...
... employed in ro- mances to prolong the embarrassments of the dramatis personæ , and which per- haps are not in the present case very artificially interposed . Considering , as it proves to be the case , that Mrs Purcel was the guilty ...
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... employed by me on that occasion , for he was not my or- dinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Portugal piece when I settled my account with him ...
... employed by me on that occasion , for he was not my or- dinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Portugal piece when I settled my account with him ...
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... employed as places of punishment , are by no means uncom- mon ; and I never shall forget the im- pression produced on my mind by the celebrated history of Count Alberti's confinement in the horrible quicksilver mines of Idria , as ...
... employed as places of punishment , are by no means uncom- mon ; and I never shall forget the im- pression produced on my mind by the celebrated history of Count Alberti's confinement in the horrible quicksilver mines of Idria , as ...
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Page 261 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 276 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 226 - Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential ; happier far Than miserable to have eternal being : Or, if our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst...
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Page 278 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 276 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails ; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Page 408 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.
Page 246 - While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.
Page 244 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master.