The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History, Criticisms, Biography, Poetry, and Romance ...W. S. Orr, 1838 |
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Pagina 14
... favour him with an interview , to which Massaniello consented ; in the way to Castelnovo , the streets were strewed with palm and olive branches , the windows , balconies and roofs of the houses , crowded with spectators , and hung with ...
... favour him with an interview , to which Massaniello consented ; in the way to Castelnovo , the streets were strewed with palm and olive branches , the windows , balconies and roofs of the houses , crowded with spectators , and hung with ...
Pagina 18
... favour of those minute rules of propriety and decorum , observed by all who now keep good company . A curious narrative is extant of a marriage - feast , given by a wealthy young man of Athens , during the reign of Trajan . To this ...
... favour of those minute rules of propriety and decorum , observed by all who now keep good company . A curious narrative is extant of a marriage - feast , given by a wealthy young man of Athens , during the reign of Trajan . To this ...
Pagina 24
... favour of a limited aristocracy . Turning over , in a cursory way , his books , which require some exertion of body as well as mind , to move from an upper shelf , and read , his comments on the following questions caught my eye ...
... favour of a limited aristocracy . Turning over , in a cursory way , his books , which require some exertion of body as well as mind , to move from an upper shelf , and read , his comments on the following questions caught my eye ...
Pagina 26
... favoured sighed for death because he was tired of bad company , God help the man who is obliged to draw all his amusement and all his information from gross ignorance , frivolous folly , and conceited absurdity . It is the observation ...
... favoured sighed for death because he was tired of bad company , God help the man who is obliged to draw all his amusement and all his information from gross ignorance , frivolous folly , and conceited absurdity . It is the observation ...
Pagina 28
... favour of a form of government purely democratic ; a form which , admirably calculated for rousing exertion and controlling mismanagement , gratifies , I fear too readily , the blackest passions of the human heart , and , by the rapid ...
... favour of a form of government purely democratic ; a form which , admirably calculated for rousing exertion and controlling mismanagement , gratifies , I fear too readily , the blackest passions of the human heart , and , by the rapid ...
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Pagina 294 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Pagina 295 - As an actor, confessed without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Pagina 294 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pagina 295 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.
Pagina 343 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Pagina 72 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pagina 295 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Pagina 162 - 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 358 - To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. As when a ship, by skilful steersman wrought, Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail: So varied he, and of his tortuous train Curl'd many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, To lure her eye...
Pagina 65 - These and the former terms complied with ensure your safety ; my revenge, in case of noncompliance (or any scheme to expose me) will be slower, but not less sure ; and strong suspicion the utmost that can possibly ensue upon it, while the chances would be tenfold against you. You 'will possibly be in doubt after the meeting, but it is quite necessary the outside should be a mask to the in. The family of the Bloods is not extinct, though they are not in my scheme.