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 Anecdotes, Volume 2author, 1817 Intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. |
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... give me the least encouragement to think you would be back that night ; but , on the contrary , when I asked him of his own coming back , who was then himself going to the Bishop , he returned me such a doubtful answer as could give me ...
... give me the least encouragement to think you would be back that night ; but , on the contrary , when I asked him of his own coming back , who was then himself going to the Bishop , he returned me such a doubtful answer as could give me ...
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... give me concerning your intentions of printing your fine work of Stonehenge * in good earnest . If you print it by subscription , I desire the honour to be in your List , and that you would send me a receipt , and I will send you the ...
... give me concerning your intentions of printing your fine work of Stonehenge * in good earnest . If you print it by subscription , I desire the honour to be in your List , and that you would send me a receipt , and I will send you the ...
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... gives to his loving wife 20 kye and a bull , and to his daughter Mary two compleat feather- beds . But it is now ... give with notes and emendations . With all this he thinks he is serving the world . May it always thus be served ...
... gives to his loving wife 20 kye and a bull , and to his daughter Mary two compleat feather- beds . But it is now ... give with notes and emendations . With all this he thinks he is serving the world . May it always thus be served ...
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... give my humble service to him , when you see him ; and my duty to my good Lord Tyr- connel , if you see him again before you leave town . Dr. Taylor is your very humble servant ; but , since his late shipwreck near the Gulph of Matri ...
... give my humble service to him , when you see him ; and my duty to my good Lord Tyr- connel , if you see him again before you leave town . Dr. Taylor is your very humble servant ; but , since his late shipwreck near the Gulph of Matri ...
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... give orders for three of my Pamphlets ( when they are published ) to be left at Sisson's ; one for yourself , the other for my worthy friend Mr. Den- shire , and the third I desire you to give , with my compliments , to Mr. Blackwell ...
... give orders for three of my Pamphlets ( when they are published ) to be left at Sisson's ; one for yourself , the other for my worthy friend Mr. Den- shire , and the third I desire you to give , with my compliments , to Mr. Blackwell ...
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Passagens conhecidas
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.