The wanderer: or, A collection of original tales and essays, Nide 1 |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 40
Sivu 15
... young , and , perhaps , unacquainted with many of the vices so prevalent in the present age ; you may derive incalculable advantage from attending to the relation of a tale , which has often agonised my feelings , in a degree I ...
... young , and , perhaps , unacquainted with many of the vices so prevalent in the present age ; you may derive incalculable advantage from attending to the relation of a tale , which has often agonised my feelings , in a degree I ...
Sivu 37
... young ladies on board a ship was so liable to distressing cir- cumstances , unavoidable in some cases , that he always endeavoured , by every means in his power , to render their voyage as pleasant as possible ; therefore THE WANDERER . 37.
... young ladies on board a ship was so liable to distressing cir- cumstances , unavoidable in some cases , that he always endeavoured , by every means in his power , to render their voyage as pleasant as possible ; therefore THE WANDERER . 37.
Sivu 40
... himself into her good graces , more especially as the captain was obliged to de- part upon a country voyage . This gentleman was young and accomplished , of large fortune , and good family ; so that 40 THE WANDERER .
... himself into her good graces , more especially as the captain was obliged to de- part upon a country voyage . This gentleman was young and accomplished , of large fortune , and good family ; so that 40 THE WANDERER .
Sivu 46
... thus cast a blot of infamy upon their family ; and her uncle , who was then the governor of the settlement , was deter- mined to make the young captain give ample re- paration for the injury he had done ; but even 46 THE WANDERER .
... thus cast a blot of infamy upon their family ; and her uncle , who was then the governor of the settlement , was deter- mined to make the young captain give ample re- paration for the injury he had done ; but even 46 THE WANDERER .
Sivu 49
... young captain had been making too free with wine , in company with several of his gay companions , until his ardent imagination was heated to an unusual pitch of enthusiastic love for his charming ward , whose fair image stood before ...
... young captain had been making too free with wine , in company with several of his gay companions , until his ardent imagination was heated to an unusual pitch of enthusiastic love for his charming ward , whose fair image stood before ...
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Abdallah able acquainted adventure affection Agra Ahmedabad amidst amongst amusement Andalusia appeared ardour Arrah arrived beams beautiful beheld blooming Bombay bosom captain cavern CHARLES FOTHERGILL charms contemplate countenance dare dark daugh dear death degree delight desolated wilderness dreadful dulcinea earth endeavour eternal eyes favoured fear female finer feelings flowers Frederick gentleman girl gloom glowing grief happiness heart heav'n Hibernian Hindoos honour hope hour human imagination immortal bard India Indian shore interesting JAMES WALLIS Jasus Julia labour luxuriant mankind manner Matlock melan melancholy mighty mind neral never night o'er object once painful Parsees passions Persian language person pleasure possessed present render scarcely scene shade shew silent smiled soft solitude soon sorrow soul stood storms suffered Surat sweet tears thee thou thought tion trees ture Tyburn unfortunate vast vice WANDERER whilst wretched youth
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Sivu 78 - In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen " Looks through the horizontal misty air " Shorn of hi* beams, or from behind the moon.
Sivu 7 - And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; " Careless their merits or their faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began. " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, " And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side;
Sivu 6 - he was, to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, " Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r,
Sivu 183 - I cannot tell what you and other men " Think of this life ; but, for my single self, " I had as lief not be, as live to be " In awe of such a thing as I myself. " I was born free as Caesar ; so were you: • " We both have fed as well j and we can both " Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Sivu 7 - Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; " The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, " Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away, " Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Sivu 6 - By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; ** Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. " His house was known to all the vagrant train;
Sivu 130 - O curse of marriage, " That we can call these delicate creatures ours, " And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad» " And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, "Than keep a corner in the thing
Sivu 123 - Teach nothing but to name his tools. " But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; "A Babylonish dialect, " Which learned pedants much affect : " It was a party-colour'd dress " Of patch'd and pieball'd languages: " 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, " Like fustian heretofore on satin:
Sivu 95 - Withal, as large a charter as the wind, " To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have: " And they that are most galled with my folly, " They most must laugh.'