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... fall to my hare , I must do myfelf the juftice to open the work with my own hiftory . I was born to a small hereditary estate , which ; according to the tradition of the village where it lies , was bounded by the fame hedges and ditches ...
... fall to my hare , I must do myfelf the juftice to open the work with my own hiftory . I was born to a small hereditary estate , which ; according to the tradition of the village where it lies , was bounded by the fame hedges and ditches ...
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... fall on fome divine topic , which he always treats with much authority , as one who has no interefts in this world , as one who is haftening to the object of all his wifhes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . Thefe ...
... fall on fome divine topic , which he always treats with much authority , as one who has no interefts in this world , as one who is haftening to the object of all his wifhes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . Thefe ...
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... fall away from the moft florid complexion , and the most healthful state of body , and wither into a skeleton . Her recoveries were often as fudden as her decays , info- much that she would revive in a moment out of a wasting distemper ...
... fall away from the moft florid complexion , and the most healthful state of body , and wither into a skeleton . Her recoveries were often as fudden as her decays , info- much that she would revive in a moment out of a wasting distemper ...
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... fall in with ( child , ' fays fhe , that the pigeon- houfe fell the very afternoon that our careless wench fpilt the falt upon the table ? Yes , ' fays he , my dear , and the next poft brought us an ac- count of the battle of Almanza ...
... fall in with ( child , ' fays fhe , that the pigeon- houfe fell the very afternoon that our careless wench fpilt the falt upon the table ? Yes , ' fays he , my dear , and the next poft brought us an ac- count of the battle of Almanza ...
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... fall under their notice in their feveral di- ftricts and divifions . I am no less acquainted with the par- ticular quarters and regions of this great town , than with the different parts and diftributions of the whole nation . I can ...
... fall under their notice in their feveral di- ftricts and divifions . I am no less acquainted with the par- ticular quarters and regions of this great town , than with the different parts and diftributions of the whole nation . I can ...
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Popular passages
Page 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 304 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
Page 7 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Page 53 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 9 - He has good blood in his veins; Tom Mirabell begot him, the rogue cheated me in that affair; that young fellow's mother used me more like a dog than any woman I ever made advances to.' This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn; and I find there is not one of the company but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called...
Page 44 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people.
Page 237 - My worthy friend Sir Roger is one of those who is not only at peace within himself, but beloved and esteemed by all about him. He receives a suitable tribute for his universal benevolence to mankind, in the returns of affection and good-will, which are paid him by every one that lives within his neighbourhood.
Page 281 - Let us only, if you please, to take leave of this subject, reflect upon this occasion on the vanity and transient glory of this habitable world. How by the force of one element breaking loose upon the rest, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great...
Page 77 - The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance.
Page 79 - THE English writers of tragedy are possessed with a notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent person in distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his troubles, or made him triumph over his enemies. This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in modern criticism, that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments, and an impartial execution of poetical justice.^) Who were the first that established this rule, I know...