The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... honour . Morn- ing Piece , a poem LII . Wit and Beauty , an allegory LIII . Description of a beautiful morning : pro- duction of the fly from the caterpillar tribe .... LIV . The bee and the almond tree , descrip- tion of LV ...
... honour . Morn- ing Piece , a poem LII . Wit and Beauty , an allegory LIII . Description of a beautiful morning : pro- duction of the fly from the caterpillar tribe .... LIV . The bee and the almond tree , descrip- tion of LV ...
Pagina 13
... honoured and caressed by them , and young ones were continually springing up around us . But now we must all fall without distinction , and the rooks in a short time will not find a branch to roost on . Yet , why should we complain ...
... honoured and caressed by them , and young ones were continually springing up around us . But now we must all fall without distinction , and the rooks in a short time will not find a branch to roost on . Yet , why should we complain ...
Pagina 14
... rest of my brethren to Plymouth , to be thence trans- ported to one of his majesty's docks . Whatever ship I have the honour to be employed in , they may depend on my firmness and integrity ; in a 14 NO . 50 . THE GLEANER .
... rest of my brethren to Plymouth , to be thence trans- ported to one of his majesty's docks . Whatever ship I have the honour to be employed in , they may depend on my firmness and integrity ; in a 14 NO . 50 . THE GLEANER .
Pagina 16
... HONOUR , like happiness , though universally discoursed of , has never yet been justly defined . It is a kind of chameleon , which assumes a different colour in different situations . In a woman it is chastity , and in a soldier valour ...
... HONOUR , like happiness , though universally discoursed of , has never yet been justly defined . It is a kind of chameleon , which assumes a different colour in different situations . In a woman it is chastity , and in a soldier valour ...
Pagina 17
... honour , when I presume to affirm that the principle of true honour is religion ! When honour is established upon this foundation , it strikes its root into the very centre , and extends its branches to heaven . Its ornaments are ...
... honour , when I presume to affirm that the principle of true honour is religion ! When honour is established upon this foundation , it strikes its root into the very centre , and extends its branches to heaven . Its ornaments are ...
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Abah admiration Æneas Æneid Ajax Aleppo animal animalcules appeared Aristotle arms attention bashaw Beaumont and Fletcher beauty body Cadige called caterpillar charms colour contempt creature Curdistan death delight despise despise the sun Dido divine dreadful earth eggs elegant endeavour father flower fourth estate friends genius give Graces hand happy Hassein hath head heart honour human ideas imagination immediately infinite inhabitants insect INSPECTOR kind living look Lord LUCRETIUS Magiscatzin manner means ment Milton mind motion nature never night objects observation occasion pain parent passions perfect plant pleased pleasure poet poetry Polygnotus praise queen Quintilian Rabieh racter readers reptile scene seemed shew sight silence SILIUS ITALICUS sion soon soul species surface thee thing thou thought thousand tion Tlalock tragedy tree Virgil virtue whole wings worms young Zelis Zocathlan Zulima
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Pagina 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Pagina 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Pagina 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Pagina 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Pagina 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Pagina 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Pagina 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Pagina 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Pagina 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Pagina 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...