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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... received the favour of yours of the 21st of the last month some few days ago ; and am glad to find , by the agreeable society you invite me to on Friday se'nnight , that your gout has left you free to enjoy that philosophic gaiety and ...
... received the favour of yours of the 21st of the last month some few days ago ; and am glad to find , by the agreeable society you invite me to on Friday se'nnight , that your gout has left you free to enjoy that philosophic gaiety and ...
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... received the favour of yours from London , and accounted very much , as you may see by a letter left at your house at Stamford by Robert Taylor * , of meeting you at Lincoln , which design I was confirmed in by the receipt of this ; but ...
... received the favour of yours from London , and accounted very much , as you may see by a letter left at your house at Stamford by Robert Taylor * , of meeting you at Lincoln , which design I was confirmed in by the receipt of this ; but ...
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... received many and great obligations from that family . But I will withdraw myself for a moment from these uneasy reflections . I like your project much , which invites me to take Thompson's shop ; and , could I get Tyndal and Henley ...
... received many and great obligations from that family . But I will withdraw myself for a moment from these uneasy reflections . I like your project much , which invites me to take Thompson's shop ; and , could I get Tyndal and Henley ...
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... received by anointing themselves with oil . It is certainly very ingenious . I am only in some doubt about the fact ; namely , that the old Romans , after the overflow of intemperance , were but little subject to the Gout . This you ...
... received by anointing themselves with oil . It is certainly very ingenious . I am only in some doubt about the fact ; namely , that the old Romans , after the overflow of intemperance , were but little subject to the Gout . This you ...
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... received this afternoon , gave me , after a long impatience to hear of your health and content . You divert me much with your ac- count of Miller's Farces . Your reflection on that matter is admirably just ; and I cannot but compare ...
... received this afternoon , gave me , after a long impatience to hear of your health and content . You divert me much with your ac- count of Miller's Farces . Your reflection on that matter is admirably just ; and I cannot but compare ...
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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.
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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.