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 3author, 1818 |
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... suppose it is a Regal usage . He opened a most agree- able and friendly chat , which continued for half an hour tete - à- tete . So far it was like the manner of the King ( when he was himself ) , that it embraced a variety of topics ...
... suppose it is a Regal usage . He opened a most agree- able and friendly chat , which continued for half an hour tete - à- tete . So far it was like the manner of the King ( when he was himself ) , that it embraced a variety of topics ...
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... suppose it was a dispute upon Tithes . He had the gene- ral character in our family of penurious habits . I was then a boy ; but I have heard some of the neighbours describe him as a man of parts , and an eloquent preacher.- Politics ...
... suppose it was a dispute upon Tithes . He had the gene- ral character in our family of penurious habits . I was then a boy ; but I have heard some of the neighbours describe him as a man of parts , and an eloquent preacher.- Politics ...
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... suppose that he had sold them en masse . I have added more of Wray's pe- culiar character , as winding it up . But his manner , like that of Soame Jenyns , was really so odd , that no description can reach it . In the latter it was ...
... suppose that he had sold them en masse . I have added more of Wray's pe- culiar character , as winding it up . But his manner , like that of Soame Jenyns , was really so odd , that no description can reach it . In the latter it was ...
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... suppose this appeal failed , as he died in 1760 unacknowledged . But I am very curious to see all publications of his case ; one of them is a novel in its form , and , I rather believe , had the title of Theodora . The Trial , as ...
... suppose this appeal failed , as he died in 1760 unacknowledged . But I am very curious to see all publications of his case ; one of them is a novel in its form , and , I rather believe , had the title of Theodora . The Trial , as ...
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... suppose , near Relation , Mr. G. N. Hardinge . The whole of what he has performed , and written , does him the highest honour in every respect . I therefore beg leave to make you my sincere and cordial congra- tulations on the occasion ...
... suppose , near Relation , Mr. G. N. Hardinge . The whole of what he has performed , and written , does him the highest honour in every respect . I therefore beg leave to make you my sincere and cordial congra- tulations on the occasion ...
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Página 710 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 672 - And whereas heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in Churches within this realm ; some following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln ; now from henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.
Página 776 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.
Página 672 - And where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in churches within this Realm : some following Salisbury Use, some Hereford Use, some the Use of Bangor, some of York, and some of Lincoln : now from henceforth, all the whole realm shall have but one Use.
Página 458 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 299 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Página 710 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 774 - You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty and puissant Monarch of all Scotland had not such a sum in his Treasury. The case is altered, I perceive, at present; but whom have you to thank for it ? " Bonny Scot we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman.
Página 473 - You are also quite right in regard to the state of mind in which the author should put himself when he corrects his verses. I have given in a little poem of mine called ' The Poet ' the same precept which you give me.
Página 94 - Arms, such Arms being first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office, otherwise this our Licence and Permission to be void and of none effect.