Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotesauthor, 1817 - Authors, English |
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... leave you to make your inferences from this , of the degree or profession of the owner * . This adventure may not be inconsiderable , as it tends to a more perfect recovery of that part of the Foss - road that adjoins to us . You know ...
... leave you to make your inferences from this , of the degree or profession of the owner * . This adventure may not be inconsiderable , as it tends to a more perfect recovery of that part of the Foss - road that adjoins to us . You know ...
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... leave our Antiquary as he leaves old Cecil , half uncele- brated . - Vale , amice dulcissime . W. W. LETTER XIII . GUL . WARBURTON , amplissimo doctissimoque viro , GULIELMO STUKELEIO suo , S. Aug. 8 , 1732 . LITERAS tuas , ô Bone ...
... leave our Antiquary as he leaves old Cecil , half uncele- brated . - Vale , amice dulcissime . W. W. LETTER XIII . GUL . WARBURTON , amplissimo doctissimoque viro , GULIELMO STUKELEIO suo , S. Aug. 8 , 1732 . LITERAS tuas , ô Bone ...
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... leave town . Dr. Taylor is your very humble servant ; but , since his late shipwreck near the Gulph of Matri- mony , he has no great curiosity to explore " the secrets of the hoary deep , " as Milton calls them . But we have an ...
... leave town . Dr. Taylor is your very humble servant ; but , since his late shipwreck near the Gulph of Matri- mony , he has no great curiosity to explore " the secrets of the hoary deep , " as Milton calls them . But we have an ...
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... leave she took of all human concerns , as she winged her way into the bosom of our common God and Father , was an anxious enquiry concerning my welfare ; which being assured of , she immediately closed her eyes for ever . " business ...
... leave she took of all human concerns , as she winged her way into the bosom of our common God and Father , was an anxious enquiry concerning my welfare ; which being assured of , she immediately closed her eyes for ever . " business ...
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... leave at his shop for me . I hope he sent you one of my Sermons which I published this summer , and that it met with ... leaves ; that he will re- turn thither , and then will cast off his English dress , and wear a dried skin , like the ...
... leave at his shop for me . I hope he sent you one of my Sermons which I published this summer , and that it met with ... leaves ; that he will re- turn thither , and then will cast off his English dress , and wear a dried skin , like the ...
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Page 198 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 382 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? — Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office.
Page 483 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
Page 195 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 652 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 73 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Page 348 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd> Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Page 404 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Page 834 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 717 - What City Swans once sung within the walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days.