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 78
... piece of beef . Here chimneys smoke , that never smok'd before , And we've all eat , where we shall eat no more ! Foote's last Joke - When Foote was on his way to France for a change of air , he went into the kitchen of the inn at Dover ...
... piece of beef . Here chimneys smoke , that never smok'd before , And we've all eat , where we shall eat no more ! Foote's last Joke - When Foote was on his way to France for a change of air , he went into the kitchen of the inn at Dover ...
Pagina 82
... piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the original and progress , we have inserted the relation which Spence gives in Pope's words : 66 Its reception is thus recorded “ Dr. Swift had been observing in the notes to the Dunciad ...
... piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the original and progress , we have inserted the relation which Spence gives in Pope's words : 66 Its reception is thus recorded “ Dr. Swift had been observing in the notes to the Dunciad ...
Pagina 84
... piece of hu- mour . The character given him by Pope is this , that " he was a natural man , without design , who spoke what he thought , and just as he thought it ; " and that " he was of a timid temper , and fearful of giving offence ...
... piece of hu- mour . The character given him by Pope is this , that " he was a natural man , without design , who spoke what he thought , and just as he thought it ; " and that " he was of a timid temper , and fearful of giving offence ...
Pagina 91
... piece of senting dolphins , frogs , & c . ground appropriated to the manu- which spout water to an immense facture of tiles , presents a beauti➡ distance . In one place a number ful specimen of architecture ; the of jets intersect each ...
... piece of senting dolphins , frogs , & c . ground appropriated to the manu- which spout water to an immense facture of tiles , presents a beauti➡ distance . In one place a number ful specimen of architecture ; the of jets intersect each ...
Pagina 98
... piece was , val in London , at which period the by some writers , considered as a whole of his finances were reduced farce ; even if so , it must be ranked to a few halfpence . among the farces of a man of genius . After having ...
... piece was , val in London , at which period the by some writers , considered as a whole of his finances were reduced farce ; even if so , it must be ranked to a few halfpence . among the farces of a man of genius . After having ...
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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...