The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 pages |
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... successful names have been proposed for Novels in great number , I shall only hint a few for a modern romance , such as the GRIM NUN , OR THE ABBEY OF ST . BOG IN THE MOOR ; THE FIERY PHANTOM OF THE FOREST , & c . & c . Such is the true ...
... successful names have been proposed for Novels in great number , I shall only hint a few for a modern romance , such as the GRIM NUN , OR THE ABBEY OF ST . BOG IN THE MOOR ; THE FIERY PHANTOM OF THE FOREST , & c . & c . Such is the true ...
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... of eminence which can be acquired ; were it so , my argument would become vain and futile , but his ambition is cherished by success , and at every new stride he learns to aspire to the more exalted situations that may THE MINIATURE . 49.
... of eminence which can be acquired ; were it so , my argument would become vain and futile , but his ambition is cherished by success , and at every new stride he learns to aspire to the more exalted situations that may THE MINIATURE . 49.
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... success ; but from a few words which I happened to overhear , I dis- covered that they were feasting themselves with the anticipation of those advantages and pleasures which they expected to enjoy upon their arrival at the intended ...
... success ; but from a few words which I happened to overhear , I dis- covered that they were feasting themselves with the anticipation of those advantages and pleasures which they expected to enjoy upon their arrival at the intended ...
Page 170
... successful perpetration of his crimes ? At length that inconstancy which was peculiar to him , through the artifices of a crafty politician , and the resentment of a profligate wretch , brought him to a miserable end . Who could have ...
... successful perpetration of his crimes ? At length that inconstancy which was peculiar to him , through the artifices of a crafty politician , and the resentment of a profligate wretch , brought him to a miserable end . Who could have ...
Page 173
... success . He heard me wirh a tolerable degree of patience , only amusing himself at intervals by contemplating some pictures which he had lately purchased ; whistling to half a dozen pointers which were capering about the room ; and con ...
... success . He heard me wirh a tolerable degree of patience , only amusing himself at intervals by contemplating some pictures which he had lately purchased ; whistling to half a dozen pointers which were capering about the room ; and con ...
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Page 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Page 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Page 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Page 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Page 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Page 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Page 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;