New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... town ; and for my part was never more desirous to learn in all my life than at this present . Wherefore I am bold , knowing your lordship's singular good will towards me , to open my mind thus rudely and plainly unto your goodness ...
... town ; and for my part was never more desirous to learn in all my life than at this present . Wherefore I am bold , knowing your lordship's singular good will towards me , to open my mind thus rudely and plainly unto your goodness ...
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... town , and the rest went off in a whole body . And each took more care to defend the passages to their mines , of which they had three within a league of the town , besides a mine that was about five miles off , than they did of the town ...
... town , and the rest went off in a whole body . And each took more care to defend the passages to their mines , of which they had three within a league of the town , besides a mine that was about five miles off , than they did of the town ...
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... town was become a Golgotha , the place of skulls ; and , had there not been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom , and like unto Gomorrah . ears never heard such doleful lamentations , -my nose never smelt such noisome ...
... town was become a Golgotha , the place of skulls ; and , had there not been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom , and like unto Gomorrah . ears never heard such doleful lamentations , -my nose never smelt such noisome ...
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... Adderbury , send me word , and let him stay till I send for him ; pray let Ned come up to town , I have a little business with him , and hee shall bee back in a weeke . Wonder not that I have not writt to you all LETTERS . 101.
... Adderbury , send me word , and let him stay till I send for him ; pray let Ned come up to town , I have a little business with him , and hee shall bee back in a weeke . Wonder not that I have not writt to you all LETTERS . 101.
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... town ; my being in waiting upon the sad accident of Madame's death ( for which the king endures the highest affliction imaginable ) would not allow me time or power to write letters . You have heard the thing , but the barbarousness of ...
... town ; my being in waiting upon the sad accident of Madame's death ( for which the king endures the highest affliction imaginable ) would not allow me time or power to write letters . You have heard the thing , but the barbarousness of ...
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Adderbury affectionate ANNA SEWARD assure believe blessing brother called comfort Cotterstock cousin DEAR SIR death desire duchess duke EARL EARL OF ROCHESTER endeavour esteem Eyam father favour fear give glad grace hand happiness hath hear heart honour hope humble servant JACOB TONSON JAMES THOMSON JOHN DRYDEN JOHN LILBURNE John Paston kind king Lady learning letter Lichfield live London lordship madam majesty matter MATTHEW PRIOR mean mercy mind Miss morning mother nature ness never night obliged OLIVER CROMWELL opinion passions person pleased pleasure poor pray present prince reason received remember RUSSELL TO LORD SAMUEL FOOTE sent Sir William Wyndham sister soul spirit sure tell thank thee thing THOMAS SHERIDAN thou thought tion told town true unto verses virtue wife wise wish word write young
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Page 200 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 202 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 17 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 247 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove nor brook lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty.
Page 134 - I have great love and regard towards you, and desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just, and peaceable life ; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall, in all things, behave themselves accordingly...
Page 149 - I breed them all up to learning, beyond my fortune ; but they are too hopeful to be neglected, though I want. Be pleased to look on me with an eye of compassion : some small employment would render my condition easy.
Page 17 - I believe him to be a good man ; and that belief hath occasioned me to examine mine own conscience concerning his opinions.
Page 11 - Follow the steps of your master Christ, and take up your cross. Lay your sins on his back, and always embrace him. And as touching my death, rejoice as I do, good sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption, for I am assured that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win...
Page 11 - Lord: be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not: be strong in faith, yet presume not; and desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death there is life. Be like the good servant, and even at midnight be waking, lest when death cometh and stealeth upon you, like a thief in the night, you be with the...
Page 60 - I thank you for the last regalo you gave me at your musceum, and for the good company. I heard you censur'd lately at Court, that you have lighted too foul upon Sir Inigo, and that you write with a porcupine's quill dipt in too much gall. Excuse me that I am so free with you, it is because I am in no common way of friendship.