Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 |
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第 27 頁
... look , When they have got their picture , toward a book , Or pompous title , like a gaudy sign Meant to betray dull sots to wretched wine . If at his title L had dropt his quill , L might have passed for a great genius still : But L ...
... look , When they have got their picture , toward a book , Or pompous title , like a gaudy sign Meant to betray dull sots to wretched wine . If at his title L had dropt his quill , L might have passed for a great genius still : But L ...
第 34 頁
... look on her like again . " Never did I know or hear of a woman who worked and lived so hard as she did to support eleven children : and were I to relate the particulars , it would not gain credit . I shall only observe that , for many ...
... look on her like again . " Never did I know or hear of a woman who worked and lived so hard as she did to support eleven children : and were I to relate the particulars , it would not gain credit . I shall only observe that , for many ...
第 63 頁
... look at one another , and many durst not appear in their shops for sometime afterwards . But others of them said that God had heard the prayers of the righteous , and so spared the world a little longer . Some years after that , Mr ...
... look at one another , and many durst not appear in their shops for sometime afterwards . But others of them said that God had heard the prayers of the righteous , and so spared the world a little longer . Some years after that , Mr ...
第 70 頁
... looks of terror and dejected eyes , Despairing murmurs , and heart - rending sighs ! No eye doth wander , and no lip doth smile , But holy horrors chill us all the while . " YOUNG OFFicer . It so happened sometimes , that one of the ...
... looks of terror and dejected eyes , Despairing murmurs , and heart - rending sighs ! No eye doth wander , and no lip doth smile , But holy horrors chill us all the while . " YOUNG OFFicer . It so happened sometimes , that one of the ...
第 85 頁
... look very serious , now became calm , and in- formed the company that , having an inclination for a frolic , he had inquired for a bad house , and had been directed there ; adding , that if there had been any H mistake , he was very ...
... look very serious , now became calm , and in- formed the company that , having an inclination for a frolic , he had inquired for a bad house , and had been directed there ; adding , that if there had been any H mistake , he was very ...
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第 344 頁 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
第 93 頁 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
第 105 頁 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
第 158 頁 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
第 165 頁 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
第 291 頁 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
第 240 頁 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
第 220 頁 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
第 110 頁 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.
第 50 頁 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...