The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1763 |
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... expect at least , that you will diveft yourself of partiality , and that whatever your age or folemnity may be , you will not , with the dotard's infolence , pronounce me ignorant and foolish , perverse and refractory , only because you ...
... expect at least , that you will diveft yourself of partiality , and that whatever your age or folemnity may be , you will not , with the dotard's infolence , pronounce me ignorant and foolish , perverse and refractory , only because you ...
الصفحة 11
... expect nothing for the enfuing week but taunts and menaces , contradiction and reproaches . THUS I live in a state of continual perfecution , only because I was born ten years too foon , and cannot ftop the course of nature or of time ...
... expect nothing for the enfuing week but taunts and menaces , contradiction and reproaches . THUS I live in a state of continual perfecution , only because I was born ten years too foon , and cannot ftop the course of nature or of time ...
الصفحة 35
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and N ° 60 . evanefcent kind , fuch as foon eva N8 60 . The RAMBLER . 35 which represents him as careful of his health, and ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and N ° 60 . evanefcent kind , fuch as foon eva N8 60 . The RAMBLER . 35 which represents him as careful of his health, and ...
الصفحة 48
... expect any longer the honour of being read by thofe eyes which are now intent only on conqueft and deftruction . RHODOCLIA . I NUMB . 63. TUESDAY , O & . 22 , 1750 . --Habebat fæpe ducentos , Sape decem fervos ; modo reges atque ...
... expect any longer the honour of being read by thofe eyes which are now intent only on conqueft and deftruction . RHODOCLIA . I NUMB . 63. TUESDAY , O & . 22 , 1750 . --Habebat fæpe ducentos , Sape decem fervos ; modo reges atque ...
الصفحة 51
... expect , yet in thofe meditations which we indulge by choice , and which are not forced upon the mind by neceffity , we have always the art of fixing our regard upon the more pleafing images , and fuffer hope to difpofe the lights by ...
... expect , yet in thofe meditations which we indulge by choice , and which are not forced upon the mind by neceffity , we have always the art of fixing our regard upon the more pleafing images , and fuffer hope to difpofe the lights by ...
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الصفحة 191 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
الصفحة 34 - Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us that, when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of...
الصفحة 190 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
الصفحة 213 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
الصفحة 61 - He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over,
الصفحة 32 - Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life.
الصفحة 60 - ... that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
الصفحة 61 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
الصفحة 62 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not...
الصفحة 59 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.