The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 2G. Risk, 1728 |
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... whole Eftate to your Jointure in this County . Elmira , who was all Goodness , accepted the Offer , removed accordingly , and has left her Spoufe in that Place to reft with his Fathers ... ΤΗΣΕ THIS is the real Figure in which Elmira ...
... whole Eftate to your Jointure in this County . Elmira , who was all Goodness , accepted the Offer , removed accordingly , and has left her Spoufe in that Place to reft with his Fathers ... ΤΗΣΕ THIS is the real Figure in which Elmira ...
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... whole Room , you will eafily conceive , were very affectionately employed in recovering him ; but above all , the young Gentlewo- man who loved him , and whom he loved , friek'd in the loudest Manner . That Voice feem'd to have a fud ...
... whole Room , you will eafily conceive , were very affectionately employed in recovering him ; but above all , the young Gentlewo- man who loved him , and whom he loved , friek'd in the loudest Manner . That Voice feem'd to have a fud ...
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... whole Body , and made both Greeks and Trojans Masters of the Secret of their Warfare and Plunder . There is nothing fo pedantick as many Quo- tations ; therefore I fhall inform you only , that in this Battalion there were two Officers ...
... whole Body , and made both Greeks and Trojans Masters of the Secret of their Warfare and Plunder . There is nothing fo pedantick as many Quo- tations ; therefore I fhall inform you only , that in this Battalion there were two Officers ...
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Favourite of his Officer . But the whole History of the feveral Changes in the Order of Sharpers , from thofe Myrmidons to our modern Men of Addrefs and Plunder , will require that we confult fome ancient Manufcripts . As we make thefe ...
Favourite of his Officer . But the whole History of the feveral Changes in the Order of Sharpers , from thofe Myrmidons to our modern Men of Addrefs and Plunder , will require that we confult fome ancient Manufcripts . As we make thefe ...
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... , as if he were Eighty . That one Paffion for Clariffa has taken up ( faid he ) my whole Soul , and all my idle Flames are extinguished , as you you may obferve , ordinary Fires are often put out 38 N ° 58 The TATLER .
... , as if he were Eighty . That one Paffion for Clariffa has taken up ( faid he ) my whole Soul , and all my idle Flames are extinguished , as you you may obferve , ordinary Fires are often put out 38 N ° 58 The TATLER .
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Página 225 - I will bear no frowns, even from ladies ; and if any woman pretends to look scornfully at me, I shall demand satisfaction of the next of kin of the masculine gender.
Página 84 - ... of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason.
Página 234 - ... and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks, which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the mismanagements of John Hickerthrift, find fault with the passionate temper in Bevis of Southampton, and loved St.
Página 275 - Our curiosity was immediately raised, so that we went to the place where the sexton had been at work, and found a great concourse of people about the grave. Among the rest, there was an old woman, who told us, the person buried there was a lady whose name...
Página 242 - We know by the life of this memorable hero, to which of these two ladies he gave up his heart ; and I believe, every one who reads this will do him the justice to approve his choice.
Página 292 - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Página 225 - ... afterwards hanged for it. But no more of this at present. As things stand, I shall put up no more affronts ; and I shall be so far from taking ill words, that I will not take ill looks.
Página 10 - ... insomuch that it was said by an old sage, ' Sure, Nestor will now be famous, for the habitations of gods, as well as men, are built by his contrivance.' But this bashful quality still put a damp upon his great knowledge, which has as fatal an effect upon men's reputations as poverty; for as it was...
Página 270 - whether he wore it at his breast to have it in readiness when that period should arrive?" My young lawyer immediately told me, he had a property in it, and a right to hang it where he...
Página 84 - But of all the people on the earth, there are none who puzzle me so much as the clergy of Great Britain, who are, I believe, the most learned body...