Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volume 2author, 1817 - 852 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... mean , such an one as has not what the world calls its full seasoning of prudence . Nobody has experienced this more home than I have done , by a thousand imprudences in my course of life ; and what makes the reflection of it more ...
... mean , such an one as has not what the world calls its full seasoning of prudence . Nobody has experienced this more home than I have done , by a thousand imprudences in my course of life ; and what makes the reflection of it more ...
Pagina 43
... mean Miriam ; the other , Moses . " I was three or four years drawing off from strong liquors gradually . Now I have quite dropped them ; only now and then , when I find it useful , I drink a glass or two of genuine wine , or brisk ale ...
... mean Miriam ; the other , Moses . " I was three or four years drawing off from strong liquors gradually . Now I have quite dropped them ; only now and then , when I find it useful , I drink a glass or two of genuine wine , or brisk ale ...
Pagina 57
... mean against Infidelity and Fanaticism ) , have escaped with my Sword Arm ; which , however , is not less devoted to the service of my Friends than of my Religion . I am , dear Sir , with the warmest affection , your most faithful ...
... mean against Infidelity and Fanaticism ) , have escaped with my Sword Arm ; which , however , is not less devoted to the service of my Friends than of my Religion . I am , dear Sir , with the warmest affection , your most faithful ...
Pagina 58
... mean new Ministers of State , who , like those , receive their borrowed lustre , from our civil suns ; and , like those , have of late been as changeable . I think they deserve a stroke of your animadversion . - A Presbyterian is only ...
... mean new Ministers of State , who , like those , receive their borrowed lustre , from our civil suns ; and , like those , have of late been as changeable . I think they deserve a stroke of your animadversion . - A Presbyterian is only ...
Pagina 69
... mean , my excellent friend Dr. Middleton , whom , on my return out of Suffolk from Sir Thomas Hanmer , I found just come home from London . ' Pray how goes on your Literary Society ? What books are you printing ? and are any of poor ...
... mean , my excellent friend Dr. Middleton , whom , on my return out of Suffolk from Sir Thomas Hanmer , I found just come home from London . ' Pray how goes on your Literary Society ? What books are you printing ? and are any of poor ...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2 John Nichols Volledige weergave - 1817 |
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2 John Nichols Volledige weergave - 1817 |
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Pagina 196 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 715 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Pagina 71 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Pagina 193 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Pagina 346 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Pagina 402 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Pagina 581 - Caora are a nation of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders, which though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same. They are called Ewaipanoma. They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
Pagina 709 - May'rs and Shrieves all hush'd and satiate lay, Yet eat, in dreams, the custard of the day; While pensive Poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Pagina 479 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
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