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 - 852 páginas |
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... reason of things , that his Grandson should be com- plimented by as stupid a Client , whose invention , as Shakespeare says , " comes from his pate like birdlime from frize , it plucks out brains and all . " Your reasons for your ...
... reason of things , that his Grandson should be com- plimented by as stupid a Client , whose invention , as Shakespeare says , " comes from his pate like birdlime from frize , it plucks out brains and all . " Your reasons for your ...
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... reasons than one , have been very useful to me . I gave you too an example the last time I did myself the pleasure of waiting on you ; when , though I found you not at the New Inn , though I then knew no more the reason of your absence ...
... reasons than one , have been very useful to me . I gave you too an example the last time I did myself the pleasure of waiting on you ; when , though I found you not at the New Inn , though I then knew no more the reason of your absence ...
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... reason : for , as Truth is the end of all things , in a System of Nature it can only be ac- quired by pursuing fact ; for God is the Author of this System : but in a System of humane policie , the pursuing fact is no safe way to Truth ...
... reason : for , as Truth is the end of all things , in a System of Nature it can only be ac- quired by pursuing fact ; for God is the Author of this System : but in a System of humane policie , the pursuing fact is no safe way to Truth ...
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... reason- ing , and flight of fancy , in your verses , that are not often to be met in Poets by profession . The first manifests itself in the Poem to Dr. Taylor , and the latter in this to me . 4 That which you tell me was Mr. Gale's ...
... reason- ing , and flight of fancy , in your verses , that are not often to be met in Poets by profession . The first manifests itself in the Poem to Dr. Taylor , and the latter in this to me . 4 That which you tell me was Mr. Gale's ...
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... Reason , are worse used than the Duke of Newcastle's Cook used his Westphalia hams and gammons . Well was it observed , by an antient Sage , that it is to education men owe all the happiness and misery of life . And our Philosophy , as ...
... Reason , are worse used than the Duke of Newcastle's Cook used his Westphalia hams and gammons . Well was it observed , by an antient Sage , that it is to education men owe all the happiness and misery of life . And our Philosophy , as ...
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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 196 - 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 715 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Página 71 - 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 193 - 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 346 - Above their functions and their offices. 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 402 - 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 581 - Caora are a nation of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders, which though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same. They are called Ewaipanoma. They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
Página 709 - May'rs and Shrieves all hush'd and satiate lay, Yet eat, in dreams, the custard of the day; While pensive Poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Página 479 - 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 824 - 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...