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Where is the student of English history who has not often endeavored to imagine the scene when Ben Jonson sat amongst the honored guests of "England's high Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair," and little prescient of the coming storm, spoke of his host as one "Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool."
LAVINIA can never be mine! Another, more happy, the maid By fortune is destin'd to bless 'Tho' the hope has forsook that betray'd, Yet why should I love her the less? Her beauties are bright as the morn, With rapture I counted them o'er; Such virtues these beauties adorn, I knew her, and prais'd them no more.
All this sort of feeling was destin'd to be arrested and revers'd by a terrible shock the battle of first Bull Run certainly, as we now know it, one of the most singular fights on record. Each side supposed it had won, till the last moment. One had, in point of fact, just the same right to be routed as the other. Where are the vaunts, and the proud boasts with which you went forth?
"Care follows hard, and soon o'ertakes The well-rigg'd ship; the warlike steed Her destin'd quarry ne'er forsakes: Nor the wind flees with half the speed."
Care follows hard, and soon o'ertakes The well-rigg'd ship; the warlike steed Her destin'd quarry ne'er forsakes: Nor the wind flees with half the speed.
They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.
Will you not speak? will you not answer me? do you repent already? before Enjoyment are you cold and false? Sir Feeb. Hum, before Enjoyment that must be me. Let. What means my Dear? shall we not haste away? Sir Feeb. Haste away! there 'tis again No 'tis not me she means: what, at your Tricks and Intrigues already? Yes, yes, I am destin'd a Cuckold Let. Say, am I not your Wife? can you deny me?
Shall he who mercy from the gallows brought, Look high, or strut, or entertain a thought That tends to tempt him to forget that fate, To which for sin he destin'd was of late, And could not then at all delivered be, But by another's death and misery? Pride is the unbecoming'st thing of all: Besides, 'tis the forerunner of a fall.
But possibly his mind may alter upon the Arrival of this False Count of ours? Car. No matter, make sure of those Seamen however; that they may be ready upon occasion. Ant. 'Tis high time for me that your Count were arriv'd, for this morning is destin'd the last of my Liberty. Car. Guz. Coming to give you the good morrow, Sir; And shew you how well he looks the Part. Car. Guil.
I could have wish'd to have made them happy: their happiness was destin'd that night, to come from another quarter. A low voice, with a good turn of expression, and sweet cadence at the end of it, begg'd for a twelve-sous piece betwixt them, for the love of heaven.
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