The Polite Miscellany: Containing Variety of Food for the Mind; Being an Elegant Collection of Moral, Humourous, and Improving Essays, &c, Both in Prose and Verse ...R. Whitworth, 1764 - 370 strán (strany) |
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Strana 17
... husband terrified , holds in his arms his trembling spouse , fearing that he may be forced himself to diffolve thofe ties which nature , love , and religion , had confecrated . The ago- nizing mother hides in her bofom her fucking ...
... husband terrified , holds in his arms his trembling spouse , fearing that he may be forced himself to diffolve thofe ties which nature , love , and religion , had confecrated . The ago- nizing mother hides in her bofom her fucking ...
Strana 47
... husband , to whom I have long fince been engaged by the most folemn promises , and from whom death only fhall divide me . " 66 Never was any confternation greater than that which ap- peared in the faces of all present .--- The bishop ...
... husband , to whom I have long fince been engaged by the most folemn promises , and from whom death only fhall divide me . " 66 Never was any confternation greater than that which ap- peared in the faces of all present .--- The bishop ...
Strana 74
... husband defpifes and ri- dicules the taste of his wife ; fhe abominates and cenfures his . Indeed but too frequently , both are culpable . Be that as it will , it is a bad fign , and gives a fhrewd fufpicion they cannot be very happy ...
... husband defpifes and ri- dicules the taste of his wife ; fhe abominates and cenfures his . Indeed but too frequently , both are culpable . Be that as it will , it is a bad fign , and gives a fhrewd fufpicion they cannot be very happy ...
Strana 76
... husbands grow cool and indifferent ; for it has a natural tendency to make a man fo . It debafes the character of a wife , and renders her cheap and unlovely , Suffer me yet to detain you with fome extracts from Dean Swift's poem ...
... husbands grow cool and indifferent ; for it has a natural tendency to make a man fo . It debafes the character of a wife , and renders her cheap and unlovely , Suffer me yet to detain you with fome extracts from Dean Swift's poem ...
Strana 86
... husband , who was rather of a thoughtless and idle , than a villainous difpofition , was now awaked to thought ; he faw his wife often , and always behaved to her with a kindness more than ufual , but that with a mixture of reserve and ...
... husband , who was rather of a thoughtless and idle , than a villainous difpofition , was now awaked to thought ; he faw his wife often , and always behaved to her with a kindness more than ufual , but that with a mixture of reserve and ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
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Populárne pasáže
Strana 203 - King, upon the commencement of the last war with France pulled down his old sign, and put up the Queen of Hungary. Under the influence of her red face and golden sceptre, he continued to sell ale till she was no longer the favourite of his customers; he changed her, therefore, some time ago, for the King of Prussia, who may probably be changed in turn for the next great man that shall be set up for vulgar admiration.
Strana 114 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Strana 176 - By lust incited, or by malice led, The villain Arab ! as he prowls for prey, Oft marks with blood and...
Strana 121 - ... more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a...
Strana 114 - What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...
Strana 232 - Griping misers, nightly waking, See the end of all your care ; Fled on wings of our own making, We have left our owners bare.
Strana 205 - ... the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own ; ages yet unborn shall gaze with wonder and applause...
Strana 103 - Grac'd with soft arts, the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you to your loves...
Strana 24 - Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Strana 287 - Little do such men know the toil, the pains, The daily, nightly racking of the brains, To range the thoughts, the matter to digest, To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest...