An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 頁 |
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... she is a beauty ; and when the fairy - tales have lost their zest , the novel is at hand . The fair student sees her own picture in the charming and sorrowful heroine ; and very naturally tries , as far as it is in her power 13.
... she is a beauty ; and when the fairy - tales have lost their zest , the novel is at hand . The fair student sees her own picture in the charming and sorrowful heroine ; and very naturally tries , as far as it is in her power 13.
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... hands , a por- tion of skill in dancing , and the Chris- tian - name of Charles , or Henry . Now it is that the poison begins to work ; and several destinies await the lady ; some of which she must choose ; and the least formidable of ...
... hands , a por- tion of skill in dancing , and the Chris- tian - name of Charles , or Henry . Now it is that the poison begins to work ; and several destinies await the lady ; some of which she must choose ; and the least formidable of ...
第 54 頁
... hand . But the goodly work is , alas ! marred , and its efficacy counteracted , by its being interlarded with scenes perfectly inexcusable ; and very unseemly , as the labour of a head white with the snows of time , and crowned , as it ...
... hand . But the goodly work is , alas ! marred , and its efficacy counteracted , by its being interlarded with scenes perfectly inexcusable ; and very unseemly , as the labour of a head white with the snows of time , and crowned , as it ...
第 67 頁
... hands what would require at least three on the part of any body else ! The admirers of Werter boast chiefly of the simplicity which pervades the work ; and , in proof of this , cite many passages in which solemn mention is made of ...
... hands what would require at least three on the part of any body else ! The admirers of Werter boast chiefly of the simplicity which pervades the work ; and , in proof of this , cite many passages in which solemn mention is made of ...
第 102 頁
... hands in the blood of more than three fellow- creatures , and , by his success at the ha- zard - table , reduced several to beggary ; who by his arts had betrayed many fe- males to ruin ; by filial disobedience had deprived his parents ...
... hands in the blood of more than three fellow- creatures , and , by his success at the ha- zard - table , reduced several to beggary ; who by his arts had betrayed many fe- males to ruin ; by filial disobedience had deprived his parents ...
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第 176 頁 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
第 175 頁 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
第 168 頁 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
第 167 頁 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
第 181 頁 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
第 188 頁 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
第 174 頁 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
第 189 頁 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
第 183 頁 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
第 188 頁 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.