Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic

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A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 - 312 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 328 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
الصفحة 117 - ... people in general are not fond of the trouble of collecting proofs, or appearing in the character of...
الصفحة 8 - See how the World its Veterans rewards ! A Youth of Frolicks, an old Age of Cards...
الصفحة 266 - ... him with his regiment, and he had never after seen Laura, or thought of her more than as an agreeable child, the sister of his friend. The impression which he made on her imagination was certainly stronger, and more permanent; although her parents considered this partiality of Laura's to Carlostein as " A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent...
الصفحة 120 - This produced difcontent, murmurs, fulkinefs, fometimes upbraidings, on their parts ; rage, threats, and every kind of abufe, on his ; he faw hatred in all their looks, he prefumed revenge in all their hearts ; he became more and more fevere, and treated them as he imagined they...
الصفحة 119 - ... of them. And he was informed by thofe who have heads for fuch a calculation, and hearts to aft in confequence of it, that to force flaves to their...
الصفحة 115 - An unfortunate gamester throws the cards into the fire, and regrets that they have not feeling ; a choleric man breaks and...
الصفحة 16 - Thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in Decencies for ever. So very reasonable, so unmov'd, As never yet to love, or to be lov'd.
الصفحة 114 - Providence, for reafons we cannot penetrate, lubjecled to his power. • When a man of a good difpofition is of a peevifh, fretful, and capricious temper, which unfortunately is...

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