The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of America, Nummer 76Smith, Elder & Company, 1858 - 341 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... characters , and to give even scurrilous language to those who are in the first degrees of honour . This , my lord , among others , is a symptom of the decayed con- dition of our government , and serves to show how fatally we mistake ...
... characters , and to give even scurrilous language to those who are in the first degrees of honour . This , my lord , among others , is a symptom of the decayed con- dition of our government , and serves to show how fatally we mistake ...
Pagina 22
... character before the Court ; let nothing prevail on you to confess , but the promise of a pardon for discovering your comrades : but I suppose all this to be in vain ; for if you escape now , your fate will be the same another day . Get ...
... character before the Court ; let nothing prevail on you to confess , but the promise of a pardon for discovering your comrades : but I suppose all this to be in vain ; for if you escape now , your fate will be the same another day . Get ...
Pagina 31
... character , his life , his humour . The most notorious sinners of all those fellow - mortals whom it is our business to discuss - Harry Fielding and Dick Steele , were especially loud , and I believe really fervent , in their ...
... character , his life , his humour . The most notorious sinners of all those fellow - mortals whom it is our business to discuss - Harry Fielding and Dick Steele , were especially loud , and I believe really fervent , in their ...
Pagina 44
... character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet . All Ireland had shouted after him , and worshipped as a liberator , a saviour , the greatest Irish patriot and citizen . Dean Drapier Bickerstaff ...
... character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet . All Ireland had shouted after him , and worshipped as a liberator , a saviour , the greatest Irish patriot and citizen . Dean Drapier Bickerstaff ...
Pagina 45
... with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! sweet epitaph . Gentle lady , so lovely , so SWIFT . 45.
... with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! sweet epitaph . Gentle lady , so lovely , so SWIFT . 45.
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Pagina 329 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Pagina 214 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Pagina 156 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Pagina 314 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Pagina 329 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Pagina 328 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband our life's taper at the close And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Pagina 36 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially...
Pagina 230 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Pagina 109 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 329 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...