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... wishes , hopes , sympathies , and grounds of self - satisfaction , on a source that can never fail thee ! He who desires the hap . piness of mankind is sure to be disappoint . ed , he who struggles to obtain their gra titude most ...
... wishes , hopes , sympathies , and grounds of self - satisfaction , on a source that can never fail thee ! He who desires the hap . piness of mankind is sure to be disappoint . ed , he who struggles to obtain their gra titude most ...
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... wish of success , that it is no wonder the fanciful speculators of Greece should have carried the matter a little farther , and ven- tured to account for the great phenomena F quently illustrate the vanity of human wishes , by making THE ..
... wish of success , that it is no wonder the fanciful speculators of Greece should have carried the matter a little farther , and ven- tured to account for the great phenomena F quently illustrate the vanity of human wishes , by making THE ..
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quently illustrate the vanity of human wishes , by making that the prime object of their ambition , which is in fact the only one of the external distinctions with which all their riches can never invest them . SIR , To the Conductor of ...
quently illustrate the vanity of human wishes , by making that the prime object of their ambition , which is in fact the only one of the external distinctions with which all their riches can never invest them . SIR , To the Conductor of ...
Side 44
... wish that I may not be the last of them . This phrenzy , for I can give it no other name , grew every day more alarming . He began to brag to all his acquaintance what a great family he was come of , and could scarcely take a customer's ...
... wish that I may not be the last of them . This phrenzy , for I can give it no other name , grew every day more alarming . He began to brag to all his acquaintance what a great family he was come of , and could scarcely take a customer's ...
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... wish for ocu- lar demonstration , they may satisfy them selves by repairing to Jenny Skelpweel's , No. 9 , Nether Bow , where I understand it is still to be seen , having been preserved in the honest old creature's red pocket - book as ...
... wish for ocu- lar demonstration , they may satisfy them selves by repairing to Jenny Skelpweel's , No. 9 , Nether Bow , where I understand it is still to be seen , having been preserved in the honest old creature's red pocket - book as ...
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Side 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Side 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Side 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Side 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Side 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Side 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Side 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Side 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...