The Lounger: no. 70-101; June 3, 1786-Jan. 6, 1787A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1788 |
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... refpect , and the other to attain good - humour . I remember fome years ago , -it was during the last war , and it is of no importance that I have forgot the exact date , -being invited to dine at the house of Mr. Draper , one of the ...
... refpect , and the other to attain good - humour . I remember fome years ago , -it was during the last war , and it is of no importance that I have forgot the exact date , -being invited to dine at the house of Mr. Draper , one of the ...
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... refpect he had for the family of Sir William Roberts ; how happy it made him that his present company had eat a bit of mutton with him , and what fatisfaction it would give him to cultivate a closer friend- fhip and connection with them ...
... refpect he had for the family of Sir William Roberts ; how happy it made him that his present company had eat a bit of mutton with him , and what fatisfaction it would give him to cultivate a closer friend- fhip and connection with them ...
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... refpect ; whom it was scarce worth while to hate or to despise . I was confidered as merely a part of his eftablish- ment ; and it was my duty to do the honours of his table , as it was that of his butler to attend to his fide - board ...
... refpect ; whom it was scarce worth while to hate or to despise . I was confidered as merely a part of his eftablish- ment ; and it was my duty to do the honours of his table , as it was that of his butler to attend to his fide - board ...
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... refpect- able and interefting . She fpoke frequently of fuch of her own family as the remembered when a child , but scarcely ever of those she had loft , though one could fee fhe thought of them often . She had buried a beloved husband ...
... refpect- able and interefting . She fpoke frequently of fuch of her own family as the remembered when a child , but scarcely ever of those she had loft , though one could fee fhe thought of them often . She had buried a beloved husband ...
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... refpect and attention he pays them ; and on all occafions is for inflicting rigorous punishments on the perfons convicted of crimes , without paying regard to any alleviating circumstances in their cafe . I do not wish to find fault ...
... refpect and attention he pays them ; and on all occafions is for inflicting rigorous punishments on the perfons convicted of crimes , without paying regard to any alleviating circumstances in their cafe . I do not wish to find fault ...
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Página 270 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such...
Página 270 - O clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid. Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd. And guileless trust; Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Página 163 - ... to distant places and to absent friends, of drawing scenes in my mind's eye, and of peopling them with the groups of fancy, or the society of remembrance.
Página 152 - Whofe fmile can charm my cares away ;— Oh ! come with that enchanting fmile, And brighten up life's wintry day; Oh, come! and make me full amends, For all' my cares, my fears, my pain ; Delia, reftore me to my friends, Reftore me to myfelf again, N° 86.
Página 298 - Of the few whom learning or genius has led astray, the ill success or the ruin is marked by the celebrity of the sufferer. O'f the many who have been as dull as they were profligate, and as ignorant as they were poor, the fate is unknown, from the insignificance of those by whom "it was endured. If we may reason a priori on the matter, the chance, I think, should be on the side of literature.
Página 227 - I should hate," says' a young lady, the child of fiction, yet drawn with many features like that excellent girl I lost, "methinks I should hate to have been born in a town. When I say my native brook, or my native hill, I talk of friends, of whom the remembrance warms my heart.
Página 302 - ... of the merchant, and to prompt the arguments of the lawyer; and though some professions employ but very few faculties of the mind, yet there is scarce any branch of business in which a man who can think will not excel him who can only labour. We shall accordingly find, in many departments where...
Página 256 - Such faces, indeed, are a favourite part of the entertainment at Benevolus's table. One day of the week, which he jokingly calls his wife's rout day, there is an additional leaf put to the table, for the reception of some of the principal farmers on his estate, from whose conversation, he says, he derives much useful knowledge in country business, and in the ma-
Página 165 - The brook ran brawling through some underwood on the outside of the garden, and soon after formed a little cascade, which fell into the river that winded through a valley in front of the house. When hay-making or harvest was going on, my godmother took her long stick in her hand, and overlooked the...
Página 272 - In this, as in other respects, it must be allowed that there are exceptionable parts of the volume he has given to the public, which caution would have suppressed, or correction struck out; but poets are seldom cautious, and our poet had, alas ! no friends or companions from whom correction could be obtained.