The confessions of an odd-tempered man. The ruffian boy. The welcome home; or, the ball

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ormi, and Brown, 1818
 

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第 78 頁 - SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all may please, Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
第 348 頁 - ... in The Welcome Home, Mrs. Opie betrays her knowledge of the danger besetting her art ; and the fading of her vogue, once considerable, may be explained by her confession. The elderly hero marries the plain friend of his youth, whom he has found faithful after many years, and the authoress exclaims : Alas, I fear I am painting a very unnatural character for a general officer just returned a rich and prosperous bachelor from India ! But I must have my own way ; and paint such a man as he ought...
第 163 頁 - ... you equally abandon your own interest. He is instructed in no useful branch of employment by which he may earn an honest livelihood by honest labour. You have forbidden him to repent and to reflect, by withholding from him every opportunity of reflection and repentance. Seclusion from the world has been only a closer intercourse with its very worst miscreants ; his mind has lain waste and barren for every weed to take root in ; he is habituated to idleness, reconciled to filth, and familiarised...
第 164 頁 - In short, by the greatest possible degree of misery, you produce the greatest possible degree of wickedness ; you convert, perhaps, an act of indiscretion into a settled taste and propensity to vice. " Receiving him because he is too bad for society, you return him to the world impaired in health, debased in intellect, and corrupted in principles.
第 163 頁 - Yon have not cherished the latent seeds of virtue, you have not profited by the opportunity of awakening remorse for his past misconduct. His Saviour's awful name becomes, indeed, familiar to his lips, because he learns to use it, to give zest to his conversation, and...
第 163 頁 - ... alive ; — you have not cherished the latent seeds of virtue; you have not profited by the opportunity of awakening remorse for his past misconduct. His Saviour's awful name becomes, indeed, familiar to his lips, because...

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