The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, المجلد 21R. Griffiths, 1759 |
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... treat his own paffion with raillery and ridicule . It is the only ftile in which we care to hear of it , because it is the only ftile in which we ourselves are disposed to talk of it . We grow weary of the grave , pedantic , long ...
... treat his own paffion with raillery and ridicule . It is the only ftile in which we care to hear of it , because it is the only ftile in which we ourselves are disposed to talk of it . We grow weary of the grave , pedantic , long ...
الصفحة 41
... treat of the constitution of the English government ; and in these the difputants are Sir John Maynard , Mr. Somers , and Bishop Burnet , Thefe dialogues most interesting and curious ; though , to the generality of Readers , they will ...
... treat of the constitution of the English government ; and in these the difputants are Sir John Maynard , Mr. Somers , and Bishop Burnet , Thefe dialogues most interesting and curious ; though , to the generality of Readers , they will ...
الصفحة 42
... treat with him of the proportion of taxes to be raised on them . This alteration is found fubfifting at least under Ed- ward the Third ; that is , the Houfe of Commons was then fully established but many have , for good reafons , too ...
... treat with him of the proportion of taxes to be raised on them . This alteration is found fubfifting at least under Ed- ward the Third ; that is , the Houfe of Commons was then fully established but many have , for good reafons , too ...
الصفحة 57
... treats a fubject of fo important and ferious a nature . He has pointed out , indeed , many de- fects in the public worship of the church of Scotland , and his obfervations are , in general , very juft and fenfible ; but the farcastical ...
... treats a fubject of fo important and ferious a nature . He has pointed out , indeed , many de- fects in the public worship of the church of Scotland , and his obfervations are , in general , very juft and fenfible ; but the farcastical ...
الصفحة 72
... treats of the meailes at Edinburgh , in 1758 , and of their ino- culation , which Dr. Home first attempted . As this promifes fomething new and curious to the republic of medicine , we have been the more fummary in regard to the former ...
... treats of the meailes at Edinburgh , in 1758 , and of their ino- culation , which Dr. Home first attempted . As this promifes fomething new and curious to the republic of medicine , we have been the more fummary in regard to the former ...
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الصفحة 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
الصفحة 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
الصفحة 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
الصفحة 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
الصفحة 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
الصفحة 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
الصفحة 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
الصفحة 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
الصفحة 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
الصفحة 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...