Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, 8권author, 1797 |
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... LORD CHESTERFIELD . To say that his Lordship was one of the most celebrated wits of his time , as well as the polite gentleman , the philofopher , and the statef- man , would be fuperfluous . The following anec- dote having been ...
... LORD CHESTERFIELD . To say that his Lordship was one of the most celebrated wits of his time , as well as the polite gentleman , the philofopher , and the statef- man , would be fuperfluous . The following anec- dote having been ...
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... Lord Chefter- field's ring , and wrote as follows : Accept a miracle , instead of wit , " Two bad lines , by Stanhope's pencil writ . " Mr. Pope politely offered to return the ring , ( worth near five hundred pounds ) when Lord Chef ...
... Lord Chefter- field's ring , and wrote as follows : Accept a miracle , instead of wit , " Two bad lines , by Stanhope's pencil writ . " Mr. Pope politely offered to return the ring , ( worth near five hundred pounds ) when Lord Chef ...
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... Lord , ' fays he : " Then , " replied the judge , according to the evidence given in court , this can- " not be your money ; for here are only an hundred " pounds : therefore the plaintiff must keep it till " the true owner appears ...
... Lord , ' fays he : " Then , " replied the judge , according to the evidence given in court , this can- " not be your money ; for here are only an hundred " pounds : therefore the plaintiff must keep it till " the true owner appears ...
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... of Cloyn , in Ireland , was fo en- tirely contented with his income in that diocese , that when offered by the late Earl of Chesterfield ( then Lord Lord Lieutenant ) a bishoprick much more beneficial than that [ 136 ]
... of Cloyn , in Ireland , was fo en- tirely contented with his income in that diocese , that when offered by the late Earl of Chesterfield ( then Lord Lord Lieutenant ) a bishoprick much more beneficial than that [ 136 ]
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Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality Joseph Addison. Lord Lieutenant ) a bishoprick much more beneficial than that he poffeffed , he declined it with these words : " I love my neighbours , and they love me : why " then ...
Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality Joseph Addison. Lord Lieutenant ) a bishoprick much more beneficial than that he poffeffed , he declined it with these words : " I love my neighbours , and they love me : why " then ...
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70 페이지 - ... person then in his power. He mentioned this to no one; but, as soon as it was dark, retired to his garden...
49 페이지 - Which against death some weapon does not bear. Let cities boast that they provide For life the ornaments of pride ; But 'tis the country and the field, That furnish it with staff and shield.
132 페이지 - These two incongruous animals spent much of their time together in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these two sequestered individuals. The fowl would...
194 페이지 - SEE the leaves around us falling, Dry and wither'd to the ground ; Thus to thoughtless mortals calling, In a sad and solemn sound. Sons of Adam, once in Eden, Blighted when like us he fell, Hear the lecture we are reading, 'Tis, alas ! the truth we tell. Virgins, much, too much presuming On your boasted white and red, View us, late in beauty blooming, Number'd now among the dead.
143 페이지 - Caravansera, in which he lodged; and after he had fulfilled his vows, he took me with him to Medina. He gave me an apartment in the Seraglio ; I was attended by his own...
8 페이지 - ... yet from others they were continually receiving prefents, which ftill enabled them to live with a genteel frugality: they were ftill confidered as people of fafhion, and treated by thofe of a lower clafs with diftant refpect.
10 페이지 - And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
95 페이지 - ... be ready at fix the next morning, a man and horfe being difpatched in the mean time to give notice of their arrival. The young folks were a little...
239 페이지 - The peasant awoke at the break of day, and his guest, after taking leave of him, said " I must return to Moscow, my friend ; I am acquainted there with a very benevolent man, to whom I shall take care to mention your kind treatment of me. I can prevail upon him to stand godfather to your child. Promise me, therefore, that you will wait for me, that I may be present at the christening ; I will be back in three hours at the farthest.
139 페이지 - He looked round with a smile of complacency ; perceiving that though it was mean, it was neat, and that though I was poor, I appeared to be content. As his habit was that of a pilgrim, I...