The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The TatlerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809 |
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... Notice that he means to be much wittier 213. On the Names given by Gardeners to Flow- ers - A Visit to a Garden .... 219. Impertinence of professed Wits - Character of Tom Mercer -- Letters and Petitions 220. Account of the Church ...
... Notice that he means to be much wittier 213. On the Names given by Gardeners to Flow- ers - A Visit to a Garden .... 219. Impertinence of professed Wits - Character of Tom Mercer -- Letters and Petitions 220. Account of the Church ...
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... notices I have formerly known a very well - bred person re- fuse to return a bow of a man whom he thought in disgrace , that was next day made secretary of state ; and another , who after a long neglect of a minister , came to his levee ...
... notices I have formerly known a very well - bred person re- fuse to return a bow of a man whom he thought in disgrace , that was next day made secretary of state ; and another , who after a long neglect of a minister , came to his levee ...
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... notice , that through the whole course of my remarks , I never observed my glass to rise at the same time the stocks did . To complete the experiment , I prevailed upon a friend of mine , who works under me in the Oc- cult Sciences , to ...
... notice , that through the whole course of my remarks , I never observed my glass to rise at the same time the stocks did . To complete the experiment , I prevailed upon a friend of mine , who works under me in the Oc- cult Sciences , to ...
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... notice of . Upon Midsummer - day last , as he was walking with me in the fields , he saw a very odd - coloured butterfly just before us . I observed that he immediately changed colour , like a man that is surprised with a piece of good ...
... notice of . Upon Midsummer - day last , as he was walking with me in the fields , he saw a very odd - coloured butterfly just before us . I observed that he immediately changed colour , like a man that is surprised with a piece of good ...
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... notice , that you have omitted the codicil , in which he left a large Concha Vene- ris , as it is there called , to a Member of the Royal Society , who was often with him in his sickness , and assisted him in his will . And now , Sir ...
... notice , that you have omitted the codicil , in which he left a large Concha Vene- ris , as it is there called , to a Member of the Royal Society , who was often with him in his sickness , and assisted him in his will . And now , Sir ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance advertisements agreeable Apartment appear August 15 beauty behaviour canonical hour Censor coffee-house common conversation Court of Honour DECEMBER 12 discourse distemper Doctor dress entertainment Esquire favour fortune frequently gentleman give Great-Britain hand hassock heard heart Hudibras humble servant humour Hungary water impertinent indicted insomuch ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Ithuriel jury lady late learned letter living look manner marriage matter means ment mind morning nature never night nose November obliged observed occasion offend ordinary OVID paper passions person pleasure Pre-Adamite present pretend prosecutor racter reader reason Richard Newman SATURDAY secutor shew speak talk Tatler tell temper ther thing thought THURSDAY tion told tongue town TUESDAY turn Vicar of Bray vice VIRG virtue whole woman words writings WYNNE young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 130 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Página 136 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Página 207 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Página 135 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
Página 46 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 97 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Página 215 - Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo.
Página 37 - THE WILL OF A VIRTUOSO. I NICHOLAS G-IMCRACK, being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament, bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis, To my dear wife, One box of butterflies, One drawer of shells, A female skeleton, A dried cockatrice. Item, To my daughter Elizabeth, My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
Página 102 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words as well as men. The war has introduce•d abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns, Speculations...
Página 188 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,