Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 |
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... Lord of Hofts . In the Time of King Edward the Sixth the Preffes were employed in Favour of the Reformed Religion , and fmall Tracts were difperfed over the Nation , to reconcile them to the new Forms of Worship . In : this Reign ...
... Lord of Hofts . In the Time of King Edward the Sixth the Preffes were employed in Favour of the Reformed Religion , and fmall Tracts were difperfed over the Nation , to reconcile them to the new Forms of Worship . In : this Reign ...
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... Lords of the Drama , seen him touch the Knocker with a fhaking Hand ; and , after long Deliberation , adventure to folicit Entrance by a fingle Knock : But I never ftaid to fee them come out from their Audience ; because my Heart is ten ...
... Lords of the Drama , seen him touch the Knocker with a fhaking Hand ; and , after long Deliberation , adventure to folicit Entrance by a fingle Knock : But I never ftaid to fee them come out from their Audience ; because my Heart is ten ...
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... LORD , HEN firft I undertook to write an English W Dictionary , I had no Expectation of any higher Patronage than that of the Proprietors of the Copy , nor Prospect of any other Advantage than the Price of my Labour . I knew that the ...
... LORD , HEN firft I undertook to write an English W Dictionary , I had no Expectation of any higher Patronage than that of the Proprietors of the Copy , nor Prospect of any other Advantage than the Price of my Labour . I knew that the ...
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... Lord , I entered , with the pleafing Hope , that , as it was low , it like- wife would be fafe . I was drawn forward with the Profpect of Employment , which , though not fplen- did , would be useful ; and which , though it could not ...
... Lord , I entered , with the pleafing Hope , that , as it was low , it like- wife would be fafe . I was drawn forward with the Profpect of Employment , which , though not fplen- did , would be useful ; and which , though it could not ...
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... Lord , have not thought unworthy to fhare your Attention with Treaties and with Wars . In the first Attempt to methodise my Ideas I found . a Difficulty , which extended itfelf to the whole Work . It was not easy to determine by what ...
... Lord , have not thought unworthy to fhare your Attention with Treaties and with Wars . In the first Attempt to methodise my Ideas I found . a Difficulty , which extended itfelf to the whole Work . It was not easy to determine by what ...
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Página 318 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 203 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 316 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Página 98 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 149 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 320 - Improve his heady rage with treach'rous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will..
Página 98 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 84 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Página 113 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 297 - ... mind ; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.