Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotesauthor, 1817 |
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... appears , with the utmost confusion and dis- order , the most visible work of chance . But , by applying to it a cylindrical steel mirror , there imme- diately rises on its bosom a beautiful reflected form in all the justness and ...
... appears , with the utmost confusion and dis- order , the most visible work of chance . But , by applying to it a cylindrical steel mirror , there imme- diately rises on its bosom a beautiful reflected form in all the justness and ...
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... appear by next March ; and he is to have for it eleven hundred guineas * , and your humble servant for his pains one copy of the royal paper books . But , as he has given me full satisfaction for his late conduct , and appears to be ...
... appear by next March ; and he is to have for it eleven hundred guineas * , and your humble servant for his pains one copy of the royal paper books . But , as he has given me full satisfaction for his late conduct , and appears to be ...
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... appears , at least the grace of novelty . Middleton's and Pearce's dispute , that makes so much noise , I have seen : Middleton writes very agreeably , but , in his vindication of his Letter , has run into a great absurdity . Pearce is ...
... appears , at least the grace of novelty . Middleton's and Pearce's dispute , that makes so much noise , I have seen : Middleton writes very agreeably , but , in his vindication of his Letter , has run into a great absurdity . Pearce is ...
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... appear , from the Epistles of the younger Pliny , that the distemper was at least as common , and as violent , as with us . He speaks of it as an hereditary distemper , as caused by intemperance , as being so violent as to seize all the ...
... appear , from the Epistles of the younger Pliny , that the distemper was at least as common , and as violent , as with us . He speaks of it as an hereditary distemper , as caused by intemperance , as being so violent as to seize all the ...
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... appears from the Letters of Tully ; and they were only the very abandoned profligates that transgressed in this particular . Under Augustus , we may per- ceive by Horace , intemperance and excess were coming in but his manner of ...
... appears from the Letters of Tully ; and they were only the very abandoned profligates that transgressed in this particular . Under Augustus , we may per- ceive by Horace , intemperance and excess were coming in but his manner of ...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2 John Nichols Visualização integral - 1817 |
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2 John Nichols Visualização integral - 1817 |
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2 John Nichols Visualização integral - 1817 |
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Página 198 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 382 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? — Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office.
Página 483 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
Página 195 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 652 - 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 73 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Página 348 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd> Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Página 404 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Página 834 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 717 - What City Swans once sung within the walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days.