Rosina: A Novel ...W. Lane, 1793 |
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Page 23 - In all the filent manlinefs of grief. O, luxury! thou curft by heaven's decree, How ill exchang'd are things like thefe for thee ! How do thy potions with infidious joy, ' Diffufe their pleafures only to deftroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to fickly greatnefs grown, Boaft of a florid vigour not their own. At...
Page 30 - Thefe fimple bleffings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the glofs of art ; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The foul adopts, and owns their firft-born fway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolefted, unconfin'd.
Page 114 - Authors are, in general, the reverie of all other objects ; they magnify, by diftance ; they diminjih by approach : it reminds me of a city built on a hill, and in perfpeftive ; where the towers, the fpires, and lofty parts, are feen with admiration ; but, on a nearer approach, we difcorer narrow ftreets, little alleys, and offenfive objeéls perhaps ; till we are, at laft, taught to wifh we never had quitted our firft diftance; and wiih, though in vain, to be thus happily deceived, as before.
Page 22 - Per. 8. It fhall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Page 20 - A tale-bearer revealeth fecrets : but he that is of a faithful fpirit concealeth the matter.
Page 41 - However, though these poetry books are foolish enough, they are not half so bad as your romance books, like Pamela there, shewing how low creatures may be married to great lords, and men of fortune; and if it should come in your way, I charge you not to read it: there's no answering for what strange vagaries it might put into your head.