The Spiritual Quixote, Or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose: A Comic Romance : in Two VolumesJ. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1774 - English fiction |
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Page 144 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 267 - His quarter-ftaff, which he could ne'er forfake Hung half before, and half behind his back. He trudg'd along, unknowing what he fought, And whiftled as he went, for want of thought. By chance conducted, or by thirft conftrain'd, The deep recedes of the grove he gain'd ; Where in a plain defended by the wood, Crept thro...
Page 14 - tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires. II 'Tis not to wound a wanton boy Or am'rous youth, that gives the joy; But 'tis the glory to have pierced a swain For whom inferior beauties sighed in vain.
Page 202 - God's heritage; and, what is worse, as my whole income in this parish arises from the small tythes, because I cannot afford to let them cheat me out of half my dues, they represent me as carnal and worldly-minded, and as one who regards nothing but the good things of this life, and who is always making disturbances in the parish. And this prejudice against me prevents my doing that good amongst them which I sincerely wish to do. One man has left his church, and walks three miles to a...
Page 8 - ... laid out in a romantic taste, with a proper mixture of the allegro and the penseroso, the chearful and the gloomy: tufts of roses, jasmines, and the most fragrant flowering shrubs, with a serpentine walk of cypresses and laurels, here and there an urn, with suitable inscriptions, and terminated by a rough arch of rock-work that covered a dripping fountain, were its principal beauties.
Page 116 - Whitfield, on the contrary, said little about Repentance, but laid all the stress upon Faith alone; so that, if a man was, or fancied, or even said, that he was, possessed of true Faith, he was immediately pronounced a convert, and, whether he reformed his life or not, became a Saint upon easy terms.
Page 145 - AN ANECDOTE. A Roman-Catholic Gentleman went a patridge mooting along with a Proteftant neighbour of his, on a faft-day; theyVere driven about noon, by a thunder-ftorm, to a little public-houfe, where they could get nothing to eat but fome bacon and eggs. The good Catholic had a tender confcience, and would eat nothing but eggs; the Proteftant, his companion, who was one of your good fort of people, faid, there could be no harm in...
Page 144 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know, that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement.
Page 84 - therefore now no profpeft of any living; " and I do not chufe to go into orders, to be " a Curate all my life-time, and work for about " fifteen-pence a day, or twenty-five pounds a year.
Page 158 - England ; and though (I thank God!) I have always had good custom, and have had twenty couple at a time, taking their recreation, in my house, yet (I bless God!) I never had any murder, or riot, or daggers-drawing, since I have been in business. Then I make my poor Lambs read the Bible every Sunday, and go to church in their turn...