The Triflers: To which are Added The Rout, Or a Sketch of Modern Manners ; and The Farmer's Son, a Moral Tale

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Lackington, Allen, and Company, 1806 - English poetry - 177 pages
 

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Page 26 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 58 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Page 6 - Sir, (quoth the lawyer,) not to flatter ye, You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim...
Page 72 - ... powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he performs last ; as by continual advances from his first stage of existence, he is perpetually varying the horizon of his prospects, he must always discover new motives of action, new excitements of fear, and allurements of desire.
Page 12 - ... jellies, sweetmeats, ice-creams and the like, they decided on the merits of the several performances, from which they selected three, which were deemed the best, and of course entitled to prizes, which her ladyship distributed to the respective authors ; a pompous bouquet of flowers to the first, a myrtle wreath to the second, and a sprig of myrtle to the third. These were then usually presented by the successful candidate to some lady, who wore them in her hair or her bosom the next evening...
Page 72 - This quality of looking forward into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a being whose motions are gradual, and whose life is progressive ; as his powers are limited, he must use means for the attainment of his ends, and intend first what he performs last ; as by continual advances from his first stage of existence, he is perpetually varying the horizon of his prospects, he must always discover new motives of action, new excitements of fear...
Page 62 - In the year 1715, Mr. Allen was one of the clerks in the post office in Bath; when having got intelligence of a waggon load of arms, which was coming up from the West, for the use of the disaffected in this part of England, (who were supposed to have projected an insurrection, in order to co-operate with that in Scotland and in the North of England) Mr. Allen communicated this to general Wade: who was then quartered with troops at Bath, and who finding him a sensible prudent young man, got him advanced,...
Page 70 - At the first visit which I made at Prior Park, I met Dr. Warburton for the first time, whom I ventured to pronounce one of the politest men I had ever seen. Those who only know him as engaged in controversy may be surprised at this. But I found him so attentive to every one who spoke, particularly to myself, who am the worst of all possible speakers, setting everything that I said in the clearest light, and, in short, paying such deference to his inferiors, as most of the company were...
Page 65 - The pleasure ground of Prior Park, though not extensive, is beautifully romantic, and good use is made of the various rills of water which appear to issue from a rock, stricken by the wand of Moses, (a statue of whom is placed above it) and trickling down the precipice, are collected below into...
Page 61 - In what I am going to relate in these few Anecdotes, I do not pretend to great accuracy, as to time and other circumstances, but they are what were generally known and related as facts fifty years ago [about 1750], when I first came to reside in the vicinity of Bath; of which few people in the neighbourhood could be ignorant (p.

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