Harrison's British Classicks, Volumen6Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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... fall not within the notice of lefs accurate obfervers . A few nights ago I faw one of these gentlemen take up a fermon , and after feeming to peruse it for fome time with great attention , he declared , it was very good English . " The ...
... fall not within the notice of lefs accurate obfervers . A few nights ago I faw one of these gentlemen take up a fermon , and after feeming to peruse it for fome time with great attention , he declared , it was very good English . " The ...
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... fall of stocks . I have , however , been very much embarraffed in getting toge- ther a collection , fuitable to the religion I profefs . The famous painters were most of them fuch bigots to their own way of thinking , that they have ...
... fall of stocks . I have , however , been very much embarraffed in getting toge- ther a collection , fuitable to the religion I profefs . The famous painters were most of them fuch bigots to their own way of thinking , that they have ...
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... fall according to the defires and affec- tions of the wearer . He will very short- ly publish a large affortment of them , to be fold at his fhop on Ludgate Hilla and I flatter myself , there are many wo- men in England who will be glad ...
... fall according to the defires and affec- tions of the wearer . He will very short- ly publish a large affortment of them , to be fold at his fhop on Ludgate Hilla and I flatter myself , there are many wo- men in England who will be glad ...
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... falling - fits . I was fent for last night , when one of these fits had juft feized him . He lay to all appear- ance dead on the floor , wallowing in the midit of a foetid mafs , partly folid , par ly fluid , which had iffued from his ...
... falling - fits . I was fent for last night , when one of these fits had juft feized him . He lay to all appear- ance dead on the floor , wallowing in the midit of a foetid mafs , partly folid , par ly fluid , which had iffued from his ...
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... falling into ridiculous drolleries , and what our au- thor calls extravaganzas in her man- Hor . B. G. tell how to regulate the ftops of their flutes , or touch the ftrings of their lyres , with judgment and grace . However , by much ...
... falling into ridiculous drolleries , and what our au- thor calls extravaganzas in her man- Hor . B. G. tell how to regulate the ftops of their flutes , or touch the ftrings of their lyres , with judgment and grace . However , by much ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.