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 Anecdotesauthor, 1817 |
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... never be called in ques- tion again by impartial men . But , you know , the subject is to be a secret , that it may have when it appears , at least the grace of novelty . Middleton's and Pearce's dispute , that makes so much noise , I ...
... never be called in ques- tion again by impartial men . But , you know , the subject is to be a secret , that it may have when it appears , at least the grace of novelty . Middleton's and Pearce's dispute , that makes so much noise , I ...
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... never expected great things in this kind ( which requires a perfect knowledge of antient Literature , History , and Mankind ) , from a man who spent all his days in looking through a tele- scope . I am glad , dear Sir , that you wasted ...
... never expected great things in this kind ( which requires a perfect knowledge of antient Literature , History , and Mankind ) , from a man who spent all his days in looking through a tele- scope . I am glad , dear Sir , that you wasted ...
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... never have oc- casion to mention again but to laugh at . I have re- ceived the Richardsons * , father and son , whom you ' was so kind as to send me , and shall take care of them , and return them safe to you . Such a heap of wretched ...
... never have oc- casion to mention again but to laugh at . I have re- ceived the Richardsons * , father and son , whom you ' was so kind as to send me , and shall take care of them , and return them safe to you . Such a heap of wretched ...
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... never before saw together , to be matched by nothing but " Tom Coryat's Crudities . " I have long had a quarrel with you , for being so niggardly of your Letters . You will just pay your debts to your friends ; but you will give them no ...
... never before saw together , to be matched by nothing but " Tom Coryat's Crudities . " I have long had a quarrel with you , for being so niggardly of your Letters . You will just pay your debts to your friends ; but you will give them no ...
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... never thought a Letter from you could have given me the concern I feel at the melancholy con- tents of yours * . This loss has revived in me all that tenderness I so lately felt for a very deserving Sis- ter — and the tears I am now ...
... never thought a Letter from you could have given me the concern I feel at the melancholy con- tents of yours * . This loss has revived in me all that tenderness I so lately felt for a very deserving Sis- ter — and the tears I am now ...
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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 726 - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece, A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece, 'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespear, and Corneille, Can make a Gibber, Tibbald, or Ozell.
Página 749 - ... for half a year or more, the common newspapers (in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers) were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise...
Página 693 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 717 - Now 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 73 - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before 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 587 - 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 348 - 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 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.