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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... - able fancy discordant and monstrous ideas are , by the force of the passions , whimsically daubed on at random , which present no mark of the workman- · ship of the great plastic Nature . But , if ship 10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF LITERATURE .
... - able fancy discordant and monstrous ideas are , by the force of the passions , whimsically daubed on at random , which present no mark of the workman- · ship of the great plastic Nature . But , if ship 10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF LITERATURE .
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... marks of a very prevailing distemper ; and his Uncle , in his Natural History , book xxvi . c . 10. hints at as much ; though what he says in his first book has a different cast , when examined , it will appear to confirm his Nephew's ...
... marks of a very prevailing distemper ; and his Uncle , in his Natural History , book xxvi . c . 10. hints at as much ; though what he says in his first book has a different cast , when examined , it will appear to confirm his Nephew's ...
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... mark of my sincere esteem and friendship . I have likewise inclosed 15s . with which I beg you will buy me the 6 volumes of Bibliotheque that are already come out ; and to send them me down by the Newarke waggon . As nothing does me a ...
... mark of my sincere esteem and friendship . I have likewise inclosed 15s . with which I beg you will buy me the 6 volumes of Bibliotheque that are already come out ; and to send them me down by the Newarke waggon . As nothing does me a ...
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... mark of my esteem and friendship for you . Dear Sir , if you will do me the favour to let me hear from you now and then , at your leisure , the state of your health , and what news is stirring in the literary world , believe me no ...
... mark of my esteem and friendship for you . Dear Sir , if you will do me the favour to let me hear from you now and then , at your leisure , the state of your health , and what news is stirring in the literary world , believe me no ...
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... marks on his Works may be seen in Mr. A. Chalmers's Edition of the " Biographical Dictionary , " vol . IV . p . 188 . The following Letters were addressed to Mr. Wilkes , with whom Mr. Baxter had commenced an acquaintance abroad , and ...
... marks on his Works may be seen in Mr. A. Chalmers's Edition of the " Biographical Dictionary , " vol . IV . p . 188 . The following Letters were addressed to Mr. Wilkes , with whom Mr. Baxter had commenced an acquaintance abroad , and ...
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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.