Harrison's British Classicks, Volumen6Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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... she did not know what I meant . I dined last week at a foreign ambaffador's ; and not a word about me or my works paffed at table . I wrote to a relation at Caermarthen , defiring to know what reputation my paper has in Wales ; but he ...
... she did not know what I meant . I dined last week at a foreign ambaffador's ; and not a word about me or my works paffed at table . I wrote to a relation at Caermarthen , defiring to know what reputation my paper has in Wales ; but he ...
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... she came , he led her very gravely to the fetree , and began to indulge himself in certain freedoms , which provoked the damfel to complain loudly of his rudenefs . The lady flew into a violent paffion , and rated him feverely for his ...
... she came , he led her very gravely to the fetree , and began to indulge himself in certain freedoms , which provoked the damfel to complain loudly of his rudenefs . The lady flew into a violent paffion , and rated him feverely for his ...
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... She was fed with the entrails of goats , the fucked the eggs of the oltrich , and her drink was the milk of ewes . After gazing for fome time upon her charms , the prince in great tranfport embraced the foles of her feet ; then ripping ...
... She was fed with the entrails of goats , the fucked the eggs of the oltrich , and her drink was the milk of ewes . After gazing for fome time upon her charms , the prince in great tranfport embraced the foles of her feet ; then ripping ...
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... She was reckoned to play a better game at whift than Mrs , Sharply , and to bet with more fpirit at brag than the bold Lady Atall . She was carried about to Tunbridge , Bath , Cheltenham , and every other place of diverfion , by the ...
... She was reckoned to play a better game at whift than Mrs , Sharply , and to bet with more fpirit at brag than the bold Lady Atall . She was carried about to Tunbridge , Bath , Cheltenham , and every other place of diverfion , by the ...
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... She foon made herself remarkable for contriving the moft elegant head - dreffes , and cut- ting out ruffles with the most ravishing flope : her fancy was befides fo inex- hauftible , that the almost every day pro- duced a great variety ...
... She foon made herself remarkable for contriving the moft elegant head - dreffes , and cut- ting out ruffles with the most ravishing flope : her fancy was befides fo inex- hauftible , that the almost every day pro- duced a great variety ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 7 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 313 - Mr. Town is a fair, black, middle-sized, very short man. He wears his own hair, and a periwig. He is about thirty years of age, and not more than four and twenty. He is a student of the law, and a bachelor of physic.
Página 196 - The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers...
Página 198 - Our crew was carried into a French prison, and many of them died because they were not used to live in a jail ; but for my part it was nothing to me, for I was seasoned. One night...
Página 44 - He told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan-chair, was sure to set the table in a roar.
Página 220 - Umbrae, or shadows; and, indeed, this appellation conveys a very full idea of the nature of these humble retainers to the wealthy, since they not only follow them like their shadows, but ' like a shadow prove the substance true...
Página 29 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Página 143 - The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Página 43 - Some affect humanity and tenderness, others boast of having such dispositions from nature ; but he is the only man I ever knew who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence. He takes as much pains to hide his feelings, as any hypocrite would to conceal his indifference ; but on every unguarded moment the mask drops off, and reveals him to the most superficial observer.
Página 253 - ... of horses, let six bright bays, blacks, or greys prance down one side of her head ; and according to the rank she insists upon, let a ducal or an earl's coronet, or a bloody hand be distinguished upon her capriole.