Life. Poems. Irene, a tragedyNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... seems to have purfued with a good , inclination . His reading was always defultory , feldom refting on any particular author , but rambling from one book to another , and , by hafty snatches , boarding up a variety of knowledge . It may ...
... seems to have purfued with a good , inclination . His reading was always defultory , feldom refting on any particular author , but rambling from one book to another , and , by hafty snatches , boarding up a variety of knowledge . It may ...
الصفحة 12
... seem willing to believe it . He continued at the university till the want of pecuniary fupplies obliged him to quit the place . He obtained , however , the affiftance of a friend and returning in a fhort time was able to complete a ...
... seem willing to believe it . He continued at the university till the want of pecuniary fupplies obliged him to quit the place . He obtained , however , the affiftance of a friend and returning in a fhort time was able to complete a ...
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... seems a beautiful plain , is that source of the Nile , which has been fought after at fo much expence and labour . This spring , or rather these two fprings , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast dif- tant from ...
... seems a beautiful plain , is that source of the Nile , which has been fought after at fo much expence and labour . This spring , or rather these two fprings , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast dif- tant from ...
الصفحة 26
... seems , differed from Boileau , Voltaire , and D'Alembert , who have taken upon them to profcribe all modern efforts to write with elegance in a dead language . For a decifion pronounced in fo high a tone , no good reason can be ...
... seems , differed from Boileau , Voltaire , and D'Alembert , who have taken upon them to profcribe all modern efforts to write with elegance in a dead language . For a decifion pronounced in fo high a tone , no good reason can be ...
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... seems made to disgrace or ridi- " cule the common ftructure of the human " body . His legs and arms are never in the 66 66 pofition which , according to the fituation " of his body , they ought to be in , but con- stantly employed in ...
... seems made to disgrace or ridi- " cule the common ftructure of the human " body . His legs and arms are never in the 66 66 pofition which , according to the fituation " of his body , they ought to be in , but con- stantly employed in ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ABDALLA Addiſon affift Afpafia againſt ASPASIA Baffa beauty beſt bofom breaſt CALI CARAZA cauſe charms cloſe courſe death DEMETRIUS effays eſtabliſhed ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fcorn fecret fecula fhade fhall fhews fhine fince firſt flaves fmile fome foon foul fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch Garrick greatneſs Greece happineſs HASAN Heav'n himſelf hiſtory honour hope houſe IRENE Irene's Johnſon juft juftice labours laft laſt leaſt LEONTIUS Lichfield Lord MAHOMET mihi mind moſt Muft muſt MUSTAPHA nunc o'er obferved occafion paffion pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe preſent publiſhed purpoſe purſue quæ quod rage reaſon rife SAMUEL JOHNSON SATIRE OF JUVENAL ſay SCENE ſcenes ſeems ſhall ſhare ſhould Sir John Hawkins ſpread ſtate ſtill Sultan thee theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tibi tion tranflation uſe virtue vitæ whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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الصفحة 75 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
الصفحة 17 - And scarce a sycophant was fed by pride; Where ne'er was known the form of mock debate, Or seen a new-made mayor's unwieldy state; Where change of fav'rites made no change of laws, And senates heard before they judg'da cause; How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish tribe, Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe?
الصفحة 18 - And smok'd in kitchens, or in auctions sold, To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And detestation rids th
الصفحة 77 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 77 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 77 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
الصفحة 76 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
الصفحة 22 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
الصفحة 76 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
الصفحة 6 - What check restrain your thirst of pow'r and gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown, Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own. To such, a groaning nation's spoils are giv'n, When public crimes...