The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Volume 1John Nutt, and sold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall., 1712 - English essays |
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... never find the Original of the Picture which dwelt in his Bofom . In a Word , his Attention to any Thing but his Paffion , was utterly gone . He has loft all the Money he ever played for , and been confuted in every Argument he has ...
... never find the Original of the Picture which dwelt in his Bofom . In a Word , his Attention to any Thing but his Paffion , was utterly gone . He has loft all the Money he ever played for , and been confuted in every Argument he has ...
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... never came Home , but it was Was there no Sot that would ftay longer ? Would any Man living but you ? Did I leave all the World for this Ufage ? To which he ~~ Madam , Split me , you are very impertinent ! In a Word , this Match was ...
... never came Home , but it was Was there no Sot that would ftay longer ? Would any Man living but you ? Did I leave all the World for this Ufage ? To which he ~~ Madam , Split me , you are very impertinent ! In a Word , this Match was ...
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... never Virtuous Love was us'd like Mine ! ( Round , Oft , as the watchful Bellman march'd his At a fresh Bottle gay Sir John he found . By Four the Knight would get his Bulinefs done , And only then reel'd off , becaufe alone ; Full well ...
... never Virtuous Love was us'd like Mine ! ( Round , Oft , as the watchful Bellman march'd his At a fresh Bottle gay Sir John he found . By Four the Knight would get his Bulinefs done , And only then reel'd off , becaufe alone ; Full well ...
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... never still ! That Rival to the Softnefs of a Mill ! Some Couch and diftant Room must be my ( Choice , Where I may fleep uncurs'd with Wife and Noife .. Long this uncomfortable Life they led , With fnarling Meals , and each a feparate ...
... never still ! That Rival to the Softnefs of a Mill ! Some Couch and diftant Room must be my ( Choice , Where I may fleep uncurs'd with Wife and Noife .. Long this uncomfortable Life they led , With fnarling Meals , and each a feparate ...
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... never hazard his offending more in this Kind . As I juft now hinted , I own my felf of the Society for Reformation of Manners . We have lower Inftruments than thofe of the Fa- mily of Bickerstaff , for punishing great Crimes , and ...
... never hazard his offending more in this Kind . As I juft now hinted , I own my felf of the Society for Reformation of Manners . We have lower Inftruments than thofe of the Fa- mily of Bickerstaff , for punishing great Crimes , and ...
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Page 35 - They had spent whole months thus, one injuring, the other complaining; when in the midst of this rage towards each other, they were commanded upon the attack of the castle, where the corporal received a shot in the thigh, and fell; the French pressing on, and he expecting to be trampled to death, called out to his enemy, "Ah, Valentine! Can you leave me here?
Page 35 - Ah, Valentine ! can you leave me here ?'• Valentine immediately ran back, and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought him through all that danger as far as the Abbey of...
Page 250 - However low and poor the taking of snuff argues a man to be in his own stock of thoughts, or means to employ his brains and his fingers; yet there is a poorer creature in the world than he, and this is a borrower of snuff; a fellow that keeps no box of his own, but is always asking others for a pinch. Such poor rogues put me always in mind of a common phrase among school-boys when they are composing their exercise, who run to an upper scholar, and cry,
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Page 17 - After this declaration, if a fine lady thinks fit to giggle at church, or a great beau come in drunk to a play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing paper. For, merely as a well-bred man, I cannot bear these enormities.
Page 254 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 16 - Homer, and the design of it, is a good representation of the age in which that comedy was written ; at which time love and wenching were the business of life, and the gallant manner of pursuing women was the best recommendation at Court.
Page 8 - Gentleman of a great estate fell desperately in love with a great Beauty of very high quality, but as ill-natured as long flattery and an habitual self-will could make her. However, my young Spark ventures upon her like a man of quality, without being acquainted with her, or having ever saluted her, until it was a crime to kiss any woman else.
Page 142 - I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems ; the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating hemp.
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