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... sure to become a subject for the elegant and ready pen of Bonnell Thornton . His fertile imagination seized on every occasion , and " The Seven Days Wonder , " was not suffered to pass away without its record ; the genius of our author ...
... sure to become a subject for the elegant and ready pen of Bonnell Thornton . His fertile imagination seized on every occasion , and " The Seven Days Wonder , " was not suffered to pass away without its record ; the genius of our author ...
Page xxi
... sure I imagine so ; for if I did not , my ink - horn would be dry , my pen split , and my paper wet ; that is , I should have no heart to proceed . " You mentioned the other evening a character , which I am almost a Sceptic enough to ...
... sure I imagine so ; for if I did not , my ink - horn would be dry , my pen split , and my paper wet ; that is , I should have no heart to proceed . " You mentioned the other evening a character , which I am almost a Sceptic enough to ...
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... sure always for the worse . On all these occasions , I nev- er failed to condemn the arrogance and folly of the compilers of these miscellanies ; wondering how they could so grossly mistake their own interest , and neg- lect the ...
... sure always for the worse . On all these occasions , I nev- er failed to condemn the arrogance and folly of the compilers of these miscellanies ; wondering how they could so grossly mistake their own interest , and neg- lect the ...
Page 96
... sure to get drunk with the vicar in defence of religion . As he is in the commission , he ordered a poor Jew pedlar , who came to hawk goods at his house , to Bridewell ; and he was once going to send a little parish - boy to the same ...
... sure to get drunk with the vicar in defence of religion . As he is in the commission , he ordered a poor Jew pedlar , who came to hawk goods at his house , to Bridewell ; and he was once going to send a little parish - boy to the same ...
Page 100
... sure to be accompanied with a titter ; and upon the entrance of any one with some- thing particular in his person or manner , I have seen a whole room in a buzz like a bee - hive . This practice of whispering , if it is any where al ...
... sure to be accompanied with a titter ; and upon the entrance of any one with some- thing particular in his person or manner , I have seen a whole room in a buzz like a bee - hive . This practice of whispering , if it is any where al ...
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Page 39 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 170 - As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Page 83 - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
Page 31 - Chapter coffee-house, which is frequented by those encouragers of literature, and (as they are styled by an eminent critic) 'not the worst judges of merit, the booksellers.' The conversation here naturally turns upon the newest publications; but their criticisms are somewhat singular. When they say a good book, they do not mean to praise the style or sentiment, but the quick and extensive sale of it.
Page 76 - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.
Page 164 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Page 113 - To spoyle the bloud of innocent. By forfeit of his bond. And as he was about to strike In him the deadly blow : ' Stay ' (quoth the judge) ' thy crueltie ; I charge thee to do so.
Page 34 - Larem proprium vescor vernasque procaces pasco libatis dapibus. prout cuique libido est siccat inaequalis calices conviva, solutus legibus insanis, seu quis capit acria fortis pocula seu modicis uvescit laetius. ergo 70 sermo oritur, non de villis domibusve alienis, nee male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Page 109 - I'll lay you a thousand crowns against a pound of your flesh that it is true.
Page 110 - Nor ever yet did any good To them in streets that lie. His life was like a barrow hogge, That liveth many a day, Yet never once doth any good, Until men will him slay. Or like a filthy heap of dung, That lyeth in a whoard ; Which never can do any good, Till it be spread abroad. So fares it with the usurer, He cannot sleep in rest, For feare the thiefe will him pursue To plucke him from his nest.