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... AUTHOR OF " THOS . MOORE , HIS LIFE , WRITINGS , AND CONTEMPORARIES , " & c . , & c . ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS . LONDON : LONGMAN , GREEN , LONGMAN AND ROBERTS . 1861 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 201060B ASTOR , LENOX AND.
... AUTHOR OF " THOS . MOORE , HIS LIFE , WRITINGS , AND CONTEMPORARIES , " & c . , & c . ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS . LONDON : LONGMAN , GREEN , LONGMAN AND ROBERTS . 1861 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 201060B ASTOR , LENOX AND.
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... writing news from the learned as well as the busy world . As for my labours , which he is pleased to inquire after , if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life , destroy a fingle vice , or give a morning's cheerfulness to ...
... writing news from the learned as well as the busy world . As for my labours , which he is pleased to inquire after , if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life , destroy a fingle vice , or give a morning's cheerfulness to ...
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... writings , and some time ago by your learned predictions : fince Partridge of immortal memory , is dead and gone , who , poetical as he was , could not understand his own poetry ; and philomatical as he was , could not read his own ...
... writings , and some time ago by your learned predictions : fince Partridge of immortal memory , is dead and gone , who , poetical as he was , could not understand his own poetry ; and philomatical as he was , could not read his own ...
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... writings give an account of the perfons among whom I have passed almost a fixth part of my time for the last forty years . Our club confifted originally of fifteen ; but partly by the severity of the law in arbitrary times , and partly ...
... writings give an account of the perfons among whom I have passed almost a fixth part of my time for the last forty years . Our club confifted originally of fifteen ; but partly by the severity of the law in arbitrary times , and partly ...
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... writings we have always the pleasure of seeing vice punished and virtue rewarded : indeed , were we able to view a man in the whole circle of his existence , we should have the fatisfaction of seeing it close with happinets or misery ...
... writings we have always the pleasure of seeing vice punished and virtue rewarded : indeed , were we able to view a man in the whole circle of his existence , we should have the fatisfaction of seeing it close with happinets or misery ...
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Page 296 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Page 289 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
Page 298 - It is impossible for this ingenious sort of men to subsist after a peace : every one remembers the shifts they were driven to in the reign of king Charles the Second, when they could not furnish out a single paper of news, without lighting up a comet in Germany, or a fire in Moscow.
Page 23 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 296 - Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease 'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; And proud his Mistress' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 288 - And each true Briton is to Ben so civil, He swears the Muses met him at the Devil. Tho' justly Greece her eldest sons admires, Why should not we be wiser than our sires?
Page 23 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa...
Page 24 - ... was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is that...
Page 15 - Jeoffery, no longer ago than last night, upon a dispute what day of the month it was then in Holland, pulled his pipe out of his mouth, and cried, 'What does the scholar say to it?
Page 84 - ... therefore he also retired. I was extremely troubled to see the glorious mart of London left with no other guardian but him of credit. But Pacolet told me, ' that traders had nothing to do with the honour or conscience of their...