The Oxford Entertaining Miscellany, Or, Weekly Magazine: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors, Original Communications, &c., &c, Volume 1F. Trash, 1824 |
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Pagina 34
... mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon dis- tinguished him , if not as an extra- ordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the people of ...
... mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon dis- tinguished him , if not as an extra- ordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the people of ...
Pagina 43
... mean to rest gustus , who often asked them to politically quiet the rest of my dinner , observed of their company days !! — “ That's right , my dear that , he sat between sighs and Erskine , " rejoined the facetious tears . barrister ...
... mean to rest gustus , who often asked them to politically quiet the rest of my dinner , observed of their company days !! — “ That's right , my dear that , he sat between sighs and Erskine , " rejoined the facetious tears . barrister ...
Pagina 45
... means at ease in my bodily parts ! One moment I upbraided myself for giving way to such a hopeless passion ; the next I pic- tured to myself dreams of happi- ness , which I might enjoy , could I ever obtain the object of my wishes ; but ...
... means at ease in my bodily parts ! One moment I upbraided myself for giving way to such a hopeless passion ; the next I pic- tured to myself dreams of happi- ness , which I might enjoy , could I ever obtain the object of my wishes ; but ...
Pagina 46
... means of a string from the ceiling . The captive Ant endeavoured to escape , and at last found out the way , by climbing up the string to the ceiling , and from thence down the wall to the ground , and His life - blood shed his realms ...
... means of a string from the ceiling . The captive Ant endeavoured to escape , and at last found out the way , by climbing up the string to the ceiling , and from thence down the wall to the ground , and His life - blood shed his realms ...
Pagina 51
... means of a long tube of tin , which he lengthened or curtailed , at pleasure , as occa- sion required . Among others , Sir William Wyndham held up a piece of money : upon which the soothsayer immediately directed CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF SIR ...
... means of a long tube of tin , which he lengthened or curtailed , at pleasure , as occa- sion required . Among others , Sir William Wyndham held up a piece of money : upon which the soothsayer immediately directed CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF SIR ...
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Pagina 36 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pagina 21 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Pagina 82 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 22 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae!
Pagina 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Pagina 27 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 80 - Doom'd, as I am, in solitude to waste The present moments, and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen ! Still, still, I mourn, with each returning day, Him* snatch'd by fate in early youth away. And her— thro...
Pagina 22 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Pagina 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks, — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Pagina 150 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our...