| 1765 - 600 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe * it.' . Quaintly as all this is exprefled, and boldly as it... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight,, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was con.tent to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects... | |
| Several Hands - 1765 - 624 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which be loft the world, and was content to lofe * it.' Quaintly as all this is cxprcflcd, and boldly as... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 páginas
...is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, proprietyj and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrangc, that, in enumerating the defects... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fucli Delight, that he was content to purchafe it by the Sacrifice of Reafon, Propriety, and Truth. A Quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the World, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that in enumerating the Defeats... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch Delight, that he was content to purchafe it by the Sacrifice of Reafon, Propriety, and Truth. A Quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lou the World, and was content to lofe it. ' It will be thought ftrange, that in enumerating the Defects... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating I ' the... | |
| 1784 - 514 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafc it, by the facritice of reafon, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to- him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and -was content to lofe it.— What he does beft, he.foon ceafes to do. He is not... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facririce of reafon, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defeats... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 páginas
...barren as it is, gave him fuch delight, that he was content to purchafe it, by the facrifice of reafon, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects... | |
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