English Life, Or Manners at Home: In Four Pictures ...G. Wightman, 1825 - 286 pages |
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Page 191 - have you sober, and contain yourself; Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now (at first) As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones, and none of yours, Except you make or hold it."
Page 205 - Her hair was auburn, but her eyes Were black as death, their lashes the same hue. Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies Deepest attraction, for when to the view Forth from
Page 67 - A noble fortitude in ills, delights Heaven, earth, ourselves ; 'tis duty, glory, peace. Affliction is the good man's shining scene : Prosperity conceals his brightest ray: As night to stars, wo lustre gives to man, Heroes in battle, pilots in the storm, And virtue in calamities, admire. The crown of manhood is a winter-joy; An ever-green that stands the northern blast, And blossoms in the rigour of our fate.
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Page 214 - philosopher. Observing a cluster of bees hovering about a window, he commanded that it should be opened : the bees rushed into the court, and alighted immediately on one of the wreaths, while not a single one fixed on the other. The
Page 191 - Learn to be wise, and practise how to thrive, That would I have yon do: and not to spend Your coin on every
Page 214 - The honour of the monarch's reputation for divine sagacity seemed diminished ; and the whole Jewish court looked solemn and melancholy. At length an expedient presented itself to the king ; and, it must be confessed, worthy of
Page 117 - As for country-dancing, It must indeed be confessed, that the great familiarities between the two sexes on this occasion may sometimes produce very dangerous consequences ; and I
Page 193 - I have studied your faults so long, that they are become as familiar to me, and I like them as well as I do my own.