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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... looks like forgetfulness . I had once resolved to see how long you would persevere in it ; but my fondness for you made me impatient till I had expostulated with you . From a man I love , I can bear any thing ; and therefore think I may ...
... looks like forgetfulness . I had once resolved to see how long you would persevere in it ; but my fondness for you made me impatient till I had expostulated with you . From a man I love , I can bear any thing ; and therefore think I may ...
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... looks at all like a disbelief of our Holy Religion . On the contrary , I am well persuaded , he is much a friend to it . He will shortly publish a Life of Horace . Dr. Dr. Taylor is as much yours as a man not MR . WARBURTON TO DR ...
... looks at all like a disbelief of our Holy Religion . On the contrary , I am well persuaded , he is much a friend to it . He will shortly publish a Life of Horace . Dr. Dr. Taylor is as much yours as a man not MR . WARBURTON TO DR ...
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... look very blank , asked them why they were such blockheads as not to take his money ? They an- swered , they had been toiling all day , and had taken nothing , and they were in hopes that their last cast would have made amends for all ...
... look very blank , asked them why they were such blockheads as not to take his money ? They an- swered , they had been toiling all day , and had taken nothing , and they were in hopes that their last cast would have made amends for all ...
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... look upon any other man's ; and that besides , his work , according to all the accounts I have heard of it , is quite out of my way , who am a declared enemy to all systems and hypotheses in Divinity but what arise immediately from the ...
... look upon any other man's ; and that besides , his work , according to all the accounts I have heard of it , is quite out of my way , who am a declared enemy to all systems and hypotheses in Divinity but what arise immediately from the ...
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... look pretty much into it of late . In shewing the high antiquity of Egyptian learning from the joint testimony of Sacred and Prophane Writers , their art of Medicine is one of the topics I insist on ; in which , meeting Shuckford in my ...
... look pretty much into it of late . In shewing the high antiquity of Egyptian learning from the joint testimony of Sacred and Prophane Writers , their art of Medicine is one of the topics I insist on ; in which , meeting Shuckford in my ...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting ... John Nichols,John Bowyer 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.