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 |
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... honour , as the younger Pliny says of his Friend , " magnâ gloriâ dignus est qui uxorem , quam virginem accepit , tam peritan politamque reddide- rit . " For you must know , my good Doctor , that I regard Woman in her natural state as ...
... honour , as the younger Pliny says of his Friend , " magnâ gloriâ dignus est qui uxorem , quam virginem accepit , tam peritan politamque reddide- rit . " For you must know , my good Doctor , that I regard Woman in her natural state as ...
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... , as he has given me full satisfaction for his late conduct , and appears to be willing to perform the part of a * Of this , more hereafter . man man of honour , I absolve him from all hard MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 13.
... , as he has given me full satisfaction for his late conduct , and appears to be willing to perform the part of a * Of this , more hereafter . man man of honour , I absolve him from all hard MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 13.
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... honour , I absolve him from all hard thoughts , and am disposed to serve him all I can . This 1 thought proper , for good reasons , to let you know , whom I had acquainted with my ( groundless as I am glad to find it ) suspicions and ...
... honour , I absolve him from all hard thoughts , and am disposed to serve him all I can . This 1 thought proper , for good reasons , to let you know , whom I had acquainted with my ( groundless as I am glad to find it ) suspicions and ...
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... honour to be in your List , and that you would send me a receipt , and I will send you the money . I have at present a full intention of taking a journey with you to Salisbury Plain in May the project is perfectly right in seve- ral ...
... honour to be in your List , and that you would send me a receipt , and I will send you the money . I have at present a full intention of taking a journey with you to Salisbury Plain in May the project is perfectly right in seve- ral ...
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... honour's acquaintance . But enough of this fellow . And to come to another of the same stamp . I think I told you my Brother Twells had got Bishop Stiff - runip into Chancery , for refusing to pay Mrs. Sharpe what he bargained to give ...
... honour's acquaintance . But enough of this fellow . And to come to another of the same stamp . I think I told you my Brother Twells had got Bishop Stiff - runip into Chancery , for refusing to pay Mrs. Sharpe what he bargained to give ...
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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.