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Pagina 37
... fear there is more difficulty in this af “ fair than these good - natured gentlemen " apprehend , especially as their election " cannot be delayed longer than the 11th " of next month . If you fee this matter in " the fame light that it ...
... fear there is more difficulty in this af “ fair than these good - natured gentlemen " apprehend , especially as their election " cannot be delayed longer than the 11th " of next month . If you fee this matter in " the fame light that it ...
Pagina 85
... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and defolate the mind . What then remains ? Muft I in flow decline To mute inglorious eafe old age refign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt fome arduous task ? Or , were it ...
... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and defolate the mind . What then remains ? Muft I in flow decline To mute inglorious eafe old age refign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt fome arduous task ? Or , were it ...
Pagina 88
... fears , of a crowd of inferior wri- ters , " who , " he faid , in the words of Ro- ger Afcham , lived , men knew not how , and " died obfcure , men marked not when . " He believed , that he could give a better history of Grub - street ...
... fears , of a crowd of inferior wri- ters , " who , " he faid , in the words of Ro- ger Afcham , lived , men knew not how , and " died obfcure , men marked not when . " He believed , that he could give a better history of Grub - street ...
Pagina 122
... fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of deftitution , with nobody but Frank , his black fervant , to footh his anxi- ous moments . In November 1783 , he was fwelled from head to ...
... fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of deftitution , with nobody but Frank , his black fervant , to footh his anxi- ous moments . In November 1783 , he was fwelled from head to ...
Pagina 165
... fear of the fame dreadful vifitation ; from one who fays emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in " our present state , the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of " reafon . " The enquiry into the cause of madness ...
... fear of the fame dreadful vifitation ; from one who fays emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in " our present state , the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of " reafon . " The enquiry into the cause of madness ...
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Pagina 75 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Pagina 77 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 21 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Pagina 77 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 77 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Pagina 57 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 6 - What check restrain your thirst of pow'r and gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown, Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own. To such, a groaning nation's spoils are giv'n, When public crimes...
Pagina 20 - Ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day ; Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting...
Pagina 22 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pagina 29 - Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.