The Stranger: A Literary Paper ..., Volumen 1John Cook, 1813 - 424 páginas |
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... thought it even more forbidding than that of the wife . His limbs seemed ra- ther hardened than enfeebled by years , and his large harsh features , as the unsteady light of the declining fire faintly gleamed upon his face , betrayed a ...
... thought it even more forbidding than that of the wife . His limbs seemed ra- ther hardened than enfeebled by years , and his large harsh features , as the unsteady light of the declining fire faintly gleamed upon his face , betrayed a ...
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... thought more , than we are ready to imagine . The greater part of the books of ancient learning , and ponderous erudition , which are now to be found on this side of the Atlantic , were imported and studied by these great and good men ...
... thought more , than we are ready to imagine . The greater part of the books of ancient learning , and ponderous erudition , which are now to be found on this side of the Atlantic , were imported and studied by these great and good men ...
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... thoughts their genuine and appropriate lan- guage , is one of the most wholesome exercises in which we can be engaged . Without this exercise it is scarcely possible that we should learn to think with precision and correctness . It ...
... thoughts their genuine and appropriate lan- guage , is one of the most wholesome exercises in which we can be engaged . Without this exercise it is scarcely possible that we should learn to think with precision and correctness . It ...
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... thought would be of not " the least interest to any body whatever , and therefore it is omit- ❝ted . " Waving all remarks on the elegance of the phraseology , we would merely call the attention of our readers to the alarm- ing height ...
... thought would be of not " the least interest to any body whatever , and therefore it is omit- ❝ted . " Waving all remarks on the elegance of the phraseology , we would merely call the attention of our readers to the alarm- ing height ...
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... thought , A flash - a gale , a thing of nought : Like man's thy fate - for know , that man Can hardly boast a longer span ; Innum'rous perils round him wait , For him , innum'rous anglers bait ; And , spite of all the pride of thought ...
... thought , A flash - a gale , a thing of nought : Like man's thy fate - for know , that man Can hardly boast a longer span ; Innum'rous perils round him wait , For him , innum'rous anglers bait ; And , spite of all the pride of thought ...
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Página 139 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals...
Página 108 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth.
Página 284 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 411 - The Hag. THE hag is astride This night for to ride, The devil and she together ; Through thick and through thin, Now out and then in, Though ne'er so foul be the weather. A thorn or a burr She takes for a spur ; With a lash of a bramble she rides now, Through brakes and through briars, O'er ditches and mires, She follows the spirit that guides now.
Página 140 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.
Página 139 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havock, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Página 158 - Though singularity and pride Be call'd our choice, we'll step aside, Nor join the giddy dance. From the gay world we'll oft retire To our own family and fire, Where love our hours employs ; No noisy neighbour enters here, No intermeddling stranger near, To spoil our heart-felt joys..
Página 138 - Here, Hermes, says Jove, who with nectar was mellow, Go fetch me some clay— I will make an odd fellow: Right and wrong shall be jumbled, much gold and some dross, Without cause be he...
Página 159 - Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart, Whose fragrance smells to Heaven.
Página 208 - I called it forth, and drew it into your service, a hardy and intrepid race of men ! men, who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side ; they served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.