Mordaunt: Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality, Band 3

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G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800
 

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Seite 365 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Seite 262 - ... wither'd witch fhall here be feen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays fhall haunt the green, And drefs thy grave with pearly dew...
Seite 265 - D not Offian hear a voice ? or is it the found of days that are no more ? Often does the memory of former times come, like the evening fun, on my foul.
Seite 270 - Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love.
Seite 154 - From the observations I have been able to make, I am led to believe that the people of this county feel a great interest in the welfare of the public schools, and as a natural result, they have been greatly improved within the past few years. The people should feel grateful, as they doubtless do, to Mr. Shaw, who...
Seite 41 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hymen's chin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Seite 146 - He never spoke in the House of Commons but once ; when, in the middle of a debate, a certain noisy member, looking accidentally at him, bellowed, ' Hear ! hear ! hear !' — to which my nephew calmly replied, ' / never do any thing the, sir?

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