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... person , he says , " He is as dull as a lawfully - begotten citizen's eldest son . " The Reverend JOHN BORASTON condoling with Sir N. Her- bert on the loss of his father , says , " The Blessedness of our deare deceased relations is ...
... person , he says , " He is as dull as a lawfully - begotten citizen's eldest son . " The Reverend JOHN BORASTON condoling with Sir N. Her- bert on the loss of his father , says , " The Blessedness of our deare deceased relations is ...
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... person , gravely says , " She could hardly be called well - made , as the right shoulder was rather larger than the left . " Mr. BURKE , above all men , figured in a mode of metapho- rical expression . On the 7th of June , 1794 , when ...
... person , gravely says , " She could hardly be called well - made , as the right shoulder was rather larger than the left . " Mr. BURKE , above all men , figured in a mode of metapho- rical expression . On the 7th of June , 1794 , when ...
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... persons had gone by land . " Saint CYPRIAN gravely asks , in his Third Epistle and Se- cond Book , written to Cecilius , " How can they ( the martyrs ) shed their blood for Christ's sake , if they do not drink of Christ's blood ...
... persons had gone by land . " Saint CYPRIAN gravely asks , in his Third Epistle and Se- cond Book , written to Cecilius , " How can they ( the martyrs ) shed their blood for Christ's sake , if they do not drink of Christ's blood ...
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... person at court who was not honoured with some post in it ; and its chiefs were also in high favour with the king . The view of this society was to teach the young nobility a pro- priety of behaviour , and the arts of conversation and ...
... person at court who was not honoured with some post in it ; and its chiefs were also in high favour with the king . The view of this society was to teach the young nobility a pro- priety of behaviour , and the arts of conversation and ...
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... person- age ! " It appears that even the sons of the church can take a few pious liberties ; for instance , Dr. Delany , the intimate friend of Swift , at one of the oratorio performances of the Messiah , was so affected with Mrs ...
... person- age ! " It appears that even the sons of the church can take a few pious liberties ; for instance , Dr. Delany , the intimate friend of Swift , at one of the oratorio performances of the Messiah , was so affected with Mrs ...
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Page 276 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent : To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow...
Page 313 - Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation ; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion : But to return, — Get very drunk ; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
Page 45 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Page 47 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 291 - ... pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have...
Page 324 - Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet, when, lo! A violent cross wind from either coast Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry Into the devious air; then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost And flutter'd into rags ; then relics, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds...
Page 291 - I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you...
Page 250 - There are a bundle of curiosities, not only in philosophy but in divinity, proposed and discussed by men of most supposed abilities, which indeed are not worthy our vacant hours, much less our serious studies; pieces only fit to be placed in Pantagruel's library, or bound up with Tartaretus de modo cacandi.
Page 291 - ... tis only her plan, to catch if she can, the giddy and gay as they go that way, by a production on a new construction. She has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all that may come, with a sugar -plum.