Mrs. Jordan, 2 tomasGrolier Society, 1800 |
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... vulture cleaves the storm - yet is the plumage closest to her heart soft as the cygnet's down , and o'er her unshell'd brood the murmuring ringdove sits not more gently . " To be sure ; because less warm maternal soft- ness MRS . JORDAN 25.
... vulture cleaves the storm - yet is the plumage closest to her heart soft as the cygnet's down , and o'er her unshell'd brood the murmuring ringdove sits not more gently . " To be sure ; because less warm maternal soft- ness MRS . JORDAN 25.
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James Boadan. To be sure ; because less warm maternal soft- ness would not hatch the young of this blood- stained race . And if nature is to be termed holy on account of one instinct , the maternal , what is to be her epithet for the ...
James Boadan. To be sure ; because less warm maternal soft- ness would not hatch the young of this blood- stained race . And if nature is to be termed holy on account of one instinct , the maternal , what is to be her epithet for the ...
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... sure that the assassin was in custody , it was demanded that he should be brought upon the stage . Mrs. Jordan , now coming on , immediately addressed them , and assured the house , " that he was perfectly secured , and properly ...
... sure that the assassin was in custody , it was demanded that he should be brought upon the stage . Mrs. Jordan , now coming on , immediately addressed them , and assured the house , " that he was perfectly secured , and properly ...
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... sure to attract them . If Colman could bring himself to reject the winter temptations to him to write for the great houses , if , when like the governor of Til- bury Fort , he heard the offer of a thousand pounds , and found his ...
... sure to attract them . If Colman could bring himself to reject the winter temptations to him to write for the great houses , if , when like the governor of Til- bury Fort , he heard the offer of a thousand pounds , and found his ...
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... Sure , he that made us , with such large discourse , Looking before , and after , gave us not That capability and God - like reason , To fust in us unused . Now whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple , Of thinking too ...
... Sure , he that made us , with such large discourse , Looking before , and after , gave us not That capability and God - like reason , To fust in us unused . Now whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple , Of thinking too ...
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258 psl. - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
100 psl. - What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
71 psl. - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
160 psl. - Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel...
145 psl. - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
160 psl. - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
100 psl. - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
251 psl. - My forbearance, he says, is beyond what he could have imagined ! But what will not a woman do who is firmly and sincerely attached ? Had he left me to starve, I never would have uttered a word to his disadvantage. I enclose you two other letters ; and in a day or two you shall see more, the rest being in the hands of the R 1. And now, my dear friend, do not hear the D. of C. unfairly abused.
20 psl. - ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue ;" but the allowances...
25 psl. - Oh, holy Nature ! thou dost never plead in vain. There is not, of our earth, a creature bearing form, and life, human or savage native of the forest wild, or giddy air- around whose parent bosom, thou...