The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 2Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pagina 19
... relations , is a peer of a neighbouring kingdom , and has in his youth made some few bulls , by which it is insinuated that he has forfeited his goods and chattels . This is the more astonishing , in that there are many persons in the ...
... relations , is a peer of a neighbouring kingdom , and has in his youth made some few bulls , by which it is insinuated that he has forfeited his goods and chattels . This is the more astonishing , in that there are many persons in the ...
Pagina 27
... relation . 6 Indeed , I am extremely concerned for the lieute- nant - general , who , by his overthrow and defeat , is made a deplorable instance of the fortune of war , and vicissitudes of human affairs . He , alas ! has lost , in ...
... relation . 6 Indeed , I am extremely concerned for the lieute- nant - general , who , by his overthrow and defeat , is made a deplorable instance of the fortune of war , and vicissitudes of human affairs . He , alas ! has lost , in ...
Pagina 38
... relation to your merit of this plauditory nature ; yet , for fear of an author's ge- neral vice , and that the plain justice I have done you should by my proceeding , and others ' mistaken judgment , be imagined flattery , a thing the ...
... relation to your merit of this plauditory nature ; yet , for fear of an author's ge- neral vice , and that the plain justice I have done you should by my proceeding , and others ' mistaken judgment , be imagined flattery , a thing the ...
Pagina 47
... relation to an article in a former papert , wherein I made mention of a person who keeps a puppet - show in the city of Bath ; I was tender of naming names , and only just hinted , that he makes larger promises , when he invites people ...
... relation to an article in a former papert , wherein I made mention of a person who keeps a puppet - show in the city of Bath ; I was tender of naming names , and only just hinted , that he makes larger promises , when he invites people ...
Pagina 61
... relation , stops all process at law . This unhappy affair is no sooner over but a naked mad woman breaks into the room , calls for her duke , her lord , her emperor . As soon as she spies Aurengezebe , the object of all her fury and ...
... relation , stops all process at law . This unhappy affair is no sooner over but a naked mad woman breaks into the room , calls for her duke , her lord , her emperor . As soon as she spies Aurengezebe , the object of all her fury and ...
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Pagina 278 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Pagina 42 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Pagina 110 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Pagina 71 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt...
Pagina 277 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Pagina 236 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Pagina 288 - They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether, and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple light...
Pagina 286 - ... others telescopes, and others pencils; some had laurels on their heads, and others buskins on their legs : in short, there was scarce any instrument of a mechanic art or liberal science which was not made use of on this occasion. My good...
Pagina 292 - I desired my guide, for variety, to lead me to the fabulous apartment, the roof of which was painted with gorgons, chimeras, and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full: at the upper end sat Hercules, leaning an arm upon his club...
Pagina 208 - ... nation, these shall be unmentioned ; provided we hear no more of such practices, and that they shall not from henceforward suffer the society of such as they know to be the common enemies of order, discipline, and virtue. If it appear that they go on in encouraging them, they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history, where all is to be laid before the world with impartiality, and •without respect to persons, ' So let the stricken deer go weep.