ObserverT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... Vanessa - Visit to that Lady , with a conversation - piece . 18. Character of Leontine - Remarks upon duel- ling - Precepts for disputants . 19. Tragic story of a Portuguese Gentleman who died by the rack . 20. On the practice of ...
... Vanessa - Visit to that Lady , with a conversation - piece . 18. Character of Leontine - Remarks upon duel- ling - Precepts for disputants . 19. Tragic story of a Portuguese Gentleman who died by the rack . 20. On the practice of ...
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... Vanessa - An old gentleman silences a talkative person by a fable - Vanessa's remarks thereupon . 34. Letter from Mr. Jedediah Fish , with the cases of several persons brought to their hearing by his process - Reflections thereupon ...
... Vanessa - An old gentleman silences a talkative person by a fable - Vanessa's remarks thereupon . 34. Letter from Mr. Jedediah Fish , with the cases of several persons brought to their hearing by his process - Reflections thereupon ...
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... the words of Foigard , all this may be very fine , but upon my soul it is very ridiculous . ' " NUMBER IV . LADY THIMBLE is one of those female c 3 N ° 3 . 17 OBSERVER . Character of Vanessa-Visit to that Lady, with a conversation-piece.
... the words of Foigard , all this may be very fine , but upon my soul it is very ridiculous . ' " NUMBER IV . LADY THIMBLE is one of those female c 3 N ° 3 . 17 OBSERVER . Character of Vanessa-Visit to that Lady, with a conversation-piece.
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... Vanessa , inviting me to a Feast of Reason . I confess I was very curious to know what the nature of this feast might be ; and having been since fa- voured with a second invitation , I shall take the liberty of relating what I saw and ...
... Vanessa , inviting me to a Feast of Reason . I confess I was very curious to know what the nature of this feast might be ; and having been since fa- voured with a second invitation , I shall take the liberty of relating what I saw and ...
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... Vanessa can break in a young lady to the poetics , and teach her Pegasus to carry a side - saddle : she can make a mathematician quote Pindar , a master in chancery write novels , or a Birmingham hardware - man stamp rhymes as fast as ...
... Vanessa can break in a young lady to the poetics , and teach her Pegasus to carry a side - saddle : she can make a mathematician quote Pindar , a master in chancery write novels , or a Birmingham hardware - man stamp rhymes as fast as ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abderama Abdullah Abrahams amongst answer Apollo beauty believe better brought called Calliope Celsus character Chaubert Christ Christian confess Constantia cried CUMBERLAND Damper death devil Epimenides Euphorion evil eyes father favour fortune gave Gemellus gentleman give Goodison hand happy Havant hear heart honour hope human Irenæus Jews Judea Julius Cæsar Kamhi lady learned living look Lord Lord HALIFAX manner master Melissa ment Metapontum mind miracles mother nature never night NUMBER observed occasion paper Parthenissa passed passion person Pherecydes philosopher Phlius Pisistratus pleasure Polycrates Porphyry present Pythagoras racter reader reason received religion replied RICHARD CUMBERLAND seemed servant shew Shylock Sir Theodore society Somerville Spain speak spirit story tell thing thou thought tion told took turn Vanessa vanity whilst wife wish words write XXXVIII young Zarima
Pasajes populares
Página 200 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Página 249 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not 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 summer and winter as a Christian is?
Página 256 - Orleans; yea, and peradventure this also, to esteem of the p — x as a pimple, to wear a velvet patch on their face, and walk melancholy with their arms folded.
Página 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies with portly sail. Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Página 175 - Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,' What's o'clock?' and,
Página 93 - Garonne, and swimming to the assistance of his, when it was sinking in the middle of the stream. His passion for his mistress was no less vehement ; so that his disappointment had every aggravation possible, and operating upon a nature more than commonly susceptible, reversed every principle of humanity in the heart of Chaubert, and made him for the greatest part of his life the declared 'enemy of human nature. After many years passed in foreign parts, he was accidentally brought to his better senses...
Página 100 - He would have proceeded, but I turned from him without uttering a word, and shutting myself into my cabin surrendered myself to my meditations. " My mind was now in such a tumult, that I cannot recall my thoughts, much less put them into any order for relation : The ship however kept her course, and had now entered the mouth of the Garonne; I landed on the quay of...
Página 188 - There is such a combination of natural gifts requisite to the formation of a complete actor, that it is more a case of wonder how so many good ones are to be found, than why so few instances of excellence can be produced. Every thing, that results from nature alone, lies out of the province of instruction, and no rules that I know of will serve to give a fine form, a fine voice, or even those fine feelings, which are amongst the first properties of an actor. These, in fact, are the tools and materials...
Página 90 - Abdullah, had prevailed with this heroic princess to sacrifice herself to the detested arms of Kamhi ; the contract had been fulfilled upon her father's part, but to survive it was more than she had engaged for, and an indignity which her nature could not submit to. As soon as the battle joined, she put her resolution into act, and swallowed the mortal draught. Life just sufficed to relate this dismal tale to the dying Abdullah, and to receive the account from his lips of the deception which Abderama...
Página 222 - Garrulity, attended with immoderate fits of laughing, is no common case, when the provocation thereunto springs from jokes of a man's own making; but there was this peculiarity in Mr. Chatter's disease, that he would laugh where no jest was, or even at the jests of other people, rather than not laugh at all. I soon perceived this to be occasioned by exceedingly weak intellects, and an even row of very white teeth. As his malady would not yield to the ordinary prescriptions, I was forced to throw...