La Belle Assemblée, Volumen 18J. Bell, 1818 |
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... leaves , and buds most elegantly and exquisitely disposed : they possessed a fine relief produced by light and shade , and their rich and na- tural appearance was far beyond what the pencil could ever hope to produce . For every reason ...
... leaves , and buds most elegantly and exquisitely disposed : they possessed a fine relief produced by light and shade , and their rich and na- tural appearance was far beyond what the pencil could ever hope to produce . For every reason ...
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... leave me a moment's quiet , and often made me weep with anguish , that I was not five e hundred leagues distaut from them . In the meantime , far from giving myself up to the delights of solitude , the only conso- lation of an ...
... leave me a moment's quiet , and often made me weep with anguish , that I was not five e hundred leagues distaut from them . In the meantime , far from giving myself up to the delights of solitude , the only conso- lation of an ...
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... leave him miserable and free , how should such an one be requisite to Madame d'Epinay , sur- rounded as she is by all the comforts of life , and who has ten people in her suite ! O Fortune ! vile and despicable Fortune , if , in thy ...
... leave him miserable and free , how should such an one be requisite to Madame d'Epinay , sur- rounded as she is by all the comforts of life , and who has ten people in her suite ! O Fortune ! vile and despicable Fortune , if , in thy ...
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... leave an esta- run after a post - chaise , because , after all , blishment here , which I must maintain . to run and cover oneself with mud , is the If I leave these women at the hermitage , I employment of a poor creature . But , in ...
... leave an esta- run after a post - chaise , because , after all , blishment here , which I must maintain . to run and cover oneself with mud , is the If I leave these women at the hermitage , I employment of a poor creature . But , in ...
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... leave it to a more philosophical pen , to proceed with my narration . Caroline , although three years older than her friend , still remained unmarried ; and , having intimated her intention to continue single , her friends had purchased ...
... leave it to a more philosophical pen , to proceed with my narration . Caroline , although three years older than her friend , still remained unmarried ; and , having intimated her intention to continue single , her friends had purchased ...
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Página 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
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Página 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
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Página 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Página 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Página 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...