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Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the
sun . Young . SECOND EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J . M .
RICHARDSON , No . 23 , CORNHILL , OPPOSITE THE ROYAL EXCHANGE . be
1 30 APR 1997 ...
Commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the
sun . Young . SECOND EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J . M .
RICHARDSON , No . 23 , CORNHILL , OPPOSITE THE ROYAL EXCHANGE . be
1 30 APR 1997 ...
Pagina xii
... the author solicits for it an exemption from severe and minute criticism ; and ,
trusting to an indulgent and liberal reception of his work , he respectfully submits
it to the public . ADVERTISEMENT . THE former Edition of this Work having been
...
... the author solicits for it an exemption from severe and minute criticism ; and ,
trusting to an indulgent and liberal reception of his work , he respectfully submits
it to the public . ADVERTISEMENT . THE former Edition of this Work having been
...
Pagina xiii
ADVERTISEMENT . THE former Edition of this Work having been very generally
approved , I have endeavoured , by a careful revision , to render the present
Edition no less deserving of the public approbation . In the subject , I have made
such ...
ADVERTISEMENT . THE former Edition of this Work having been very generally
approved , I have endeavoured , by a careful revision , to render the present
Edition no less deserving of the public approbation . In the subject , I have made
such ...
Pagina 81
St . Giles ' s Edition . JOHNSON . ( p ) - ToblowThis word , powerful and
expressive , has several significations : its present meaning is to turn nose , to
divulge . Johnson . ( 9 ) That diddled me The true reading I believe to be , " that
did me .
St . Giles ' s Edition . JOHNSON . ( p ) - ToblowThis word , powerful and
expressive , has several significations : its present meaning is to turn nose , to
divulge . Johnson . ( 9 ) That diddled me The true reading I believe to be , " that
did me .
Pagina 92
Some of the later editions have it , “ The MeloDrama ; ” but it is evidently an
alteration of some modern editor , emanating from incogitancy . The melodrama ,
which was neither tragedy , nor comedy , nor opera , nor farce , nor pantomime ,
but a ...
Some of the later editions have it , “ The MeloDrama ; ” but it is evidently an
alteration of some modern editor , emanating from incogitancy . The melodrama ,
which was neither tragedy , nor comedy , nor opera , nor farce , nor pantomime ,
but a ...
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Pagina 86 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I' faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
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Pagina 71 - How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun.
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