Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].1812 |
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... sweet com- panion of solitude , and the offspring of meditation ; the disease of an idle imagination , not the child of hurry and diversion . I am afraid that , with the gaieties of the place , and the spirits the waters give , I shall ...
... sweet com- panion of solitude , and the offspring of meditation ; the disease of an idle imagination , not the child of hurry and diversion . I am afraid that , with the gaieties of the place , and the spirits the waters give , I shall ...
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... sweet ; ' tis not scolding , that's too sour ; ' tis not raillery , that's too bitter ; nor the continual shuttlecock of reply , for that's too tart . In short . I hardly know how to season it to my taste ; but I would neither have it ...
... sweet ; ' tis not scolding , that's too sour ; ' tis not raillery , that's too bitter ; nor the continual shuttlecock of reply , for that's too tart . In short . I hardly know how to season it to my taste ; but I would neither have it ...
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... sweet Pamela and her dear master is very droll ; if it has ridiculed them as well as it has Dr. Middleton and his hero , I fancy it must be diverting ; but high things are better burlesqued than low ; the dedi- cation was really ...
... sweet Pamela and her dear master is very droll ; if it has ridiculed them as well as it has Dr. Middleton and his hero , I fancy it must be diverting ; but high things are better burlesqued than low ; the dedi- cation was really ...
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... sweet month , the fairest of the year , does not disclose its beauties . Pray make my compliments to my lord duke , and give a thousand kisses to the dear little ones , and assure them should be glad to deliver them myself . I hope Mrs ...
... sweet month , the fairest of the year , does not disclose its beauties . Pray make my compliments to my lord duke , and give a thousand kisses to the dear little ones , and assure them should be glad to deliver them myself . I hope Mrs ...
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... sweet as any beau , the second as changeable as any lover ; but I know Pen , who despises all beaux and lovers , will afford a regard to these ; therefore I imagine them worth my acquaintance . How impertinent is this interruption ...
... sweet as any beau , the second as changeable as any lover ; but I know Pen , who despises all beaux and lovers , will afford a regard to these ; therefore I imagine them worth my acquaintance . How impertinent is this interruption ...
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acquaintance Adieu admired Æneid affection affectionate agreeable amusement baron d'Holbach Bath believe Blackheath BRADSHAIGH Charles Avison CHESTERFIELD TO DR compliments DEAR DAYROLLES DEAR LORD DEAR SIR desire DUCHESS OF PORTLAND Dunciad ELIZABETH MONTAGU esteem excuse expect eyes faithful Falstaff father favour fear friendship give glad gout grace GRAY TO DR happy hear heart Hippomedon honour hope IGNATIUS SANCHO imagine kind lady ladyship learning Leasowes least leave live London LORD CHESTERFIELD madam mean melancholy ment mind Mnestheus Mount Morris never night obliged occasion one's opinion person Peterhouse pleased pleasure poor Pray present pretty racter RICHARDSON ROBINSON seen SHENSTONE sincere spirit STERNE sure tell temper thank thing THOMAS PITT thought Tibullus tion town true truth vanity wish woman word worse write
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Page 145 - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress, and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was...
Page 152 - ... for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff'; but...
Page 152 - We have old Mr. Southern at a gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old,* and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Page 199 - I live ! my gardens are in the window, like those of a lodger up three pair of stairs in Petticoat Lane, or Camomile Street, and they go to bed regularly under the same roof that I do : dear, how charming it must be to walk out in one's own garden, and sit on a bench in the open air with a fountain, and a leaden statue, and a rolling stone, and an arbour ! have a care of sore throats though, and the agoe.
Page 234 - For God's sake, persuade her to come and fix in England, for life is too short to waste in separation ; and, whilst she lives in one country, and I in another, many people will suppose it proceeds from choice ; — besides, I want thee near me, thou child and darling of my heart...
Page 148 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 171 - Cat, the name you distinguish her by, I am no less at a loss, as well knowing one's handsome cat is always the cat one...
Page 230 - Sancho! any more than mine? It is by the finest tints, and most insensible gradations, that nature descends from the fairest face about St James's, to the sootiest complexion in Africa: — at which tint of these is it, that the ties of blood are to cease? and how many shades must we descend lower still in the scale, ere Mercy is to vanish with them?
Page 148 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 170 - In the first place he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book ; it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties, and what is worse, leaves you to extricate yourself as you can.