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... fact . L. Your pleas are cobwebs , narrower or wider , That sometimes catch the fly , sometimes the spider . A. Come let us rest beside this prattling burn , And sing of our respective trades in turn . L. Agreed : our song shall pierce ...
... fact . L. Your pleas are cobwebs , narrower or wider , That sometimes catch the fly , sometimes the spider . A. Come let us rest beside this prattling burn , And sing of our respective trades in turn . L. Agreed : our song shall pierce ...
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... fact , not to be the author of Junius's Letters . A private letter of Rosenhagen's to Mr. Woodfall is still in the possession of his son , and nothing can be more dif- ferent from each other than this autograph and that of Junius ...
... fact , not to be the author of Junius's Letters . A private letter of Rosenhagen's to Mr. Woodfall is still in the possession of his son , and nothing can be more dif- ferent from each other than this autograph and that of Junius ...
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... fact that she had children of her own , unless she intended to disinherit them for the sake of her nephew . Will H. J. H. allow me to ask him to trace the relationship ? In the History and Topography of Ashbourne , & c . published in ...
... fact that she had children of her own , unless she intended to disinherit them for the sake of her nephew . Will H. J. H. allow me to ask him to trace the relationship ? In the History and Topography of Ashbourne , & c . published in ...
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... fact that three such totally different individuals as the before - mentioned , should have promulgated this Machiavellian sen- timent independently of each other , unless we suppose that Goldsmith derived his from South ; but even then ...
... fact that three such totally different individuals as the before - mentioned , should have promulgated this Machiavellian sen- timent independently of each other , unless we suppose that Goldsmith derived his from South ; but even then ...
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... fact , that as travellers not unfrequently describe places they have not visited , so bibliographers very often take it upon them to describe books they have never seen . [ The Post- humous Works of a late Celebrated Genius Deceased , a ...
... fact , that as travellers not unfrequently describe places they have not visited , so bibliographers very often take it upon them to describe books they have never seen . [ The Post- humous Works of a late Celebrated Genius Deceased , a ...
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Página 338 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 389 - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
Página 425 - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Página 30 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página 341 - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 43 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Página 388 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Página 300 - Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
Página 338 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 307 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.