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 Anecdotes, المجلد 2author, 1817 Intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. |
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... 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 serenity of ...
... 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 serenity of ...
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... 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 some little ...
... 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 some little ...
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... favour , I shall suspect you do not forgive me . My most humble service to your good spouse and pretty Miss , concludes me , dear Sir , your most affectionate and most faithful servant and friend , W. WARBURTON . LETTER XV . For the Rev ...
... favour , I shall suspect you do not forgive me . My most humble service to your good spouse and pretty Miss , concludes me , dear Sir , your most affectionate and most faithful servant and friend , W. WARBURTON . LETTER XV . For the Rev ...
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... favour . You did per fectly right in reading a discourse to the Royal Soci- ety , and on a very capable subject ... favour of you , which is , to pay my tenths for Brand Broughton , Loveden hundred ; they are 31. 11s . 4d . I have got a ...
... favour . You did per fectly right in reading a discourse to the Royal Soci- ety , and on a very capable subject ... favour of you , which is , to pay my tenths for Brand Broughton , Loveden hundred ; they are 31. 11s . 4d . I have got a ...
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... favour of inoculation . There was no part pleased us more than that beautiful and ingenious conjecture , towards the conclusion of it , about the benefit the old Ro- mans received by anointing themselves with oil . It is certainly very ...
... favour of inoculation . There was no part pleased us more than that beautiful and ingenious conjecture , towards the conclusion of it , about the benefit the old Ro- mans received by anointing themselves with oil . It is certainly very ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.