The Man of Feeling

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W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1783 - 278 pagina's
 

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Pagina 60 - Harley was a good deal struck by this discovery ; he had prudence enough, however, to conceal his amazement, and bowing as low to the monarch as his dignity required, left him immediately, and joined his companions. He found them in a quarter of the house set apart for the insane of the other sex, several of whom had gathered about the female visitors, and were examining, with rather more accuracy than might have been expected, the particulars of their dress.
Pagina 58 - But delusive ideas, sir, are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited : the world, in the eye of a philosopher, may be said to be a large madhouse. It is true, answered Harley : the passions of men are temporary madnesses ; and sometimes very fatal in their effects, " From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.
Pagina 14 - In short, he accommodated himself so ill to her humour, that she died, and did not leave him a farthing. The other method pointed out to him was an endeavour to get a lease of some crown-lands, which lay contiguous to his little paternal estate. This, it was imagined, might be easily procured...
Pagina 188 - ... in our own ground, the dog, of his own accord, followed them into the justice's. My son laid down his gun and went after his dog to bring him back ; the gamekeeper, who had marked the birds, came up and, seeing the pointer, shot him just as my son approached. The creature fell, my son ran up to him; he died with a complaining sort of cry at his master's feet.
Pagina 269 - There are some remembrances, said Harley, which rise involuntarily on my heart and make me almost wish to live. I have been blessed with a few friends, who redeem my opinion of mankind. I recollect, with the tenderest emotion, the scenes of pleasure I have passed among them ; but we shall meet again, my friend, never to be separated. There are some feelings which perhaps are too tender to be suffered by the world. The world is in general selfish, interested, and unthinking, and throws the imputation...
Pagina 184 - do, Mr. Harley? I feared the undertaking was too great for me : yet to leave, at my age, the house I had lived in from my cradle ! I could not, Mr. Harley, I could not ; there was not a tree about it that I did not look on as my father, my brother, or my child : so I even ran the risk, and took the 'squire's offer of the whole. But I had soon reason to repent of my bargain...
Pagina 264 - The state of his health, for some part of this period, appears to have been such as to forbid any thoughts of that kind : he had been seized with a very dangerous fever, caught by attending old Edwards in one of an infectious kind. From this he had recovered but imperfectly, and though he had no formed complaint, his health was manifestly on the decline. It appears that the...
Pagina 34 - ... being in the county where I lived ; for I was always curious to get acquainted with the felons, because they are commonly fellows of much mirth and little thought, qualities I had ever an esteem for.
Pagina 184 - ... squire, who had lately got a London attorney for his steward, would not renew it because, he said, he did not choose to have any farm under £300 a year value on his estate ; but offered to give me the preference on the same terms with another, if I chose to take the one he had marked out, of which mine was a part. "What could I do, Mr. Harley? I feared the undertaking was too great for me ; yet to leave, at my age, the house I had lived in from my cradle! I could not, Mr. Harley, I could not...
Pagina 169 - There is at least, said the stranger, one advantage in the poetical inclination, that it is an incentive to philanthropy. There is a certain poetic ground on which a man cannot tread without feelings that enlarge the heart ; the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes; and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate.

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