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, Volume 2author, 1817 - Authors, English Intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. |
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... once told me , with the proud Parnassian sneer , that his Mercuries were read and admired in Ireland , Barbadoes , and New- foundland . As for Peck's " Desiderata , " I cannot but think young Roger Gale punished in the Dedication for ...
... once told me , with the proud Parnassian sneer , that his Mercuries were read and admired in Ireland , Barbadoes , and New- foundland . As for Peck's " Desiderata , " I cannot but think young Roger Gale punished in the Dedication for ...
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... once with the most exquisite torments ; speaks of men who killed themselves , when no longer able to endure the frequent returns of it . These are all marks of a very prevailing distemper ; and his Uncle , in his Natural History , book ...
... once with the most exquisite torments ; speaks of men who killed themselves , when no longer able to endure the frequent returns of it . These are all marks of a very prevailing distemper ; and his Uncle , in his Natural History , book ...
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... once resolved to see how long you would persevere in it ; but my fondness for you made me impatient till I had expostulated with you . From a man I love , I can bear any thing ; and therefore think I may be al- lowed to say any thing my ...
... once resolved to see how long you would persevere in it ; but my fondness for you made me impatient till I had expostulated with you . From a man I love , I can bear any thing ; and therefore think I may be al- lowed to say any thing my ...
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... once before the ignis fatuus of a pair of black eyes ; and nothing , even , of the foundation left , but that very natural principle , held in common by the antient and modern masters of Wisdom , that all the virtues lie in the middle ...
... once before the ignis fatuus of a pair of black eyes ; and nothing , even , of the foundation left , but that very natural principle , held in common by the antient and modern masters of Wisdom , that all the virtues lie in the middle ...
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... great pains and labour , raised up into the airy unsubstantial region of the brain ; which , not above once in an age , makes a Philosopher ; 4 Philosopher ; while it is the daily destruction of Al- MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 39 .
... great pains and labour , raised up into the airy unsubstantial region of the brain ; which , not above once in an age , makes a Philosopher ; 4 Philosopher ; while it is the daily destruction of Al- MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 39 .
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.