The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volumen1J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... human soul , for want of opportunities to exert them . Time alone can show whether I be qualified for the task I have undertaken . No man , without a trial , can judge of his ability to please the public ; and prudence forbids him to ...
... human soul , for want of opportunities to exert them . Time alone can show whether I be qualified for the task I have undertaken . No man , without a trial , can judge of his ability to please the public ; and prudence forbids him to ...
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... human figure has upon our minds , the author expresses himself in the fol- lowing words : There is a further consideration , which must not be passed over , concerning the external beauty of persons , which all allow to have great power ...
... human figure has upon our minds , the author expresses himself in the fol- lowing words : There is a further consideration , which must not be passed over , concerning the external beauty of persons , which all allow to have great power ...
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... human creatures . What was still worse , their manners were more displeasing than their appearance . When my daughter ran up , with tears of joy in her eyes , to embrace her brother , he held her from him , and burst into an immoderate ...
... human creatures . What was still worse , their manners were more displeasing than their appearance . When my daughter ran up , with tears of joy in her eyes , to embrace her brother , he held her from him , and burst into an immoderate ...
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... human cha- racter , some instances , in which persons eminently possessed of those qualities give way to a contrary disposition . A man of an aspiring mind and nice sensibility may , from a wrong direction or a romantic excess of spirit ...
... human cha- racter , some instances , in which persons eminently possessed of those qualities give way to a contrary disposition . A man of an aspiring mind and nice sensibility may , from a wrong direction or a romantic excess of spirit ...
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... human nature , the strength of virtue , and depravity of vice , he can trace actions to their source , and be enabled , in the affairs of life , to avail himself of the wisdom and ex- perience of past ages . Very different is the modern ...
... human nature , the strength of virtue , and depravity of vice , he can trace actions to their source , and be enabled , in the affairs of life , to avail himself of the wisdom and ex- perience of past ages . Very different is the modern ...
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Página 251 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 276 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 123 - Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 193 - I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have, And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Página 122 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Página 68 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Página 150 - Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Página 122 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Página 68 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Página 229 - Father of mercies," said he, " forgive these tears; assist thy servant to lift up his soul to thee; to lift to thee the souls of thy people. My friends, it is good so to do, at all seasons it is good ; but in the days of our distress, what a privilege it is ! Well saith the sacred book, ' Trust in the Lord ; at all times trust in the Lord.