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... smile . ' These ladies , ' pursued Cowper , ' are witnesses . ' ' Let them be so , ' was Thurlow's answer , ' for I will certainly do it . ' This prediction was fulfilled in 1778 ; the promise , never . In 1752 , having attained his ...
... smile . ' These ladies , ' pursued Cowper , ' are witnesses . ' ' Let them be so , ' was Thurlow's answer , ' for I will certainly do it . ' This prediction was fulfilled in 1778 ; the promise , never . In 1752 , having attained his ...
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... smile for sixteen months ' was seen on his countenance ; and he returned to Orchard Side . Here he resumed his residence with Mrs. Unwin , on the old footing : though it should seem that , but for this return of insanity , the tender ...
... smile for sixteen months ' was seen on his countenance ; and he returned to Orchard Side . Here he resumed his residence with Mrs. Unwin , on the old footing : though it should seem that , but for this return of insanity , the tender ...
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... smiles , lapped him in beds of roses , and lulled his senses with clouds of aromatic incense , while , amid strains of softest music , they banquetted him on sweetmeats . Then uprose the trumpet note of a man as yet unknown , or known ...
... smiles , lapped him in beds of roses , and lulled his senses with clouds of aromatic incense , while , amid strains of softest music , they banquetted him on sweetmeats . Then uprose the trumpet note of a man as yet unknown , or known ...
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... smiling , in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame , By soft recumbency of outstretched limbs , Was bliss reserved for happier days ; -so slow The growth of what is excellent , so hard To attain perfection in this ...
... smiling , in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame , By soft recumbency of outstretched limbs , Was bliss reserved for happier days ; -so slow The growth of what is excellent , so hard To attain perfection in this ...
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... smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . 405 Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . 410 The love of ...
... smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . 405 Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . 410 The love of ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 25 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Página 269 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Página 272 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 26 - 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 earned.
Página 262 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 123 - From dearth to plenty, and from death to life, Is Nature's progress, when she lectures man In heavenly truth ; evincing, as she makes The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Página 202 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, — So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore "Where tempests never beat, nor billows roar;" And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Página 233 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize
Página 31 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Página 113 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.