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, Volumen2author, 1817 - 852 páginas |
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... opinion . The other remarkable was a small brass figure , about an inch and half long , very much the shape of a Legionary Ensign , on which I presume were the Emperor's head , and other usual decorations , but quite defaced by the ...
... opinion . The other remarkable was a small brass figure , about an inch and half long , very much the shape of a Legionary Ensign , on which I presume were the Emperor's head , and other usual decorations , but quite defaced by the ...
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... opinion you are horribly used , if Cust had interest enough to get this Prebend . I hope I shall see you at Grantham at the Visita- tion . My humble service to good Mrs. Stukeley concludes me , my dear friend , yours most affec ...
... opinion you are horribly used , if Cust had interest enough to get this Prebend . I hope I shall see you at Grantham at the Visita- tion . My humble service to good Mrs. Stukeley concludes me , my dear friend , yours most affec ...
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... opinion of the sex , which always made my esteem for a woman of worth , where she was found , proportionably greater than that the generality of men have . And it is now with the greatest concern I say it , as I have frequently before ...
... opinion of the sex , which always made my esteem for a woman of worth , where she was found , proportionably greater than that the generality of men have . And it is now with the greatest concern I say it , as I have frequently before ...
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... opinion and direction on the whole . As he knows of our intimacy , he desired I would inform myself of you , as from myself , and let him know . I should be much obliged to you , therefore , for a letter concerning the particulars ...
... opinion and direction on the whole . As he knows of our intimacy , he desired I would inform myself of you , as from myself , and let him know . I should be much obliged to you , therefore , for a letter concerning the particulars ...
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... opinion con- cerning my hand , I will take the liberty to mention the case to you . After I had recovered of my broken arm , I found my hand in the condition of their's who have had the West Indian colic , or have been concerned in ...
... opinion con- cerning my hand , I will take the liberty to mention the case to you . After I had recovered of my broken arm , I found my hand in the condition of their's who have had the West Indian colic , or have been concerned in ...
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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.