Letters on Several Subjects, Volume 2J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, and N. Conant, 1781 - English literature |
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... just writer could take to form the judgement and taste of " our nation . " Pope's idea is certainly a juft one ; but it is not practicable . Faults and beauties are fo thickly fown in Shak- fpeare , VOL . II . C fpeare , and fo ...
... just writer could take to form the judgement and taste of " our nation . " Pope's idea is certainly a juft one ; but it is not practicable . Faults and beauties are fo thickly fown in Shak- fpeare , VOL . II . C fpeare , and fo ...
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... just to " fay he was an imitator of Nature , as " to fay he was her organ . " It is the lark that fings fo out of tune , Straining harsh discords and unpleafing fharps . For Juliet to fay , that the notes of the lark were at that time ...
... just to " fay he was an imitator of Nature , as " to fay he was her organ . " It is the lark that fings fo out of tune , Straining harsh discords and unpleafing fharps . For Juliet to fay , that the notes of the lark were at that time ...
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Martin Sherlock. was - Not yet , Madam ; fhe is but just born . I grant you , afterwards the turned to folly ; and took ( 1 ) foxhunters , ( 2 ) officers , and ( 3 ) statesmen , with as little choice and delicacy as a Neapo- litan ...
Martin Sherlock. was - Not yet , Madam ; fhe is but just born . I grant you , afterwards the turned to folly ; and took ( 1 ) foxhunters , ( 2 ) officers , and ( 3 ) statesmen , with as little choice and delicacy as a Neapo- litan ...
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... just to me s But Brutus fays they are perfidious ; And Brutus is an honourable man . I fpeak not to disprove what Brutus spoke ; But here I am to speak what I do know . I found them all animated with a de- fire to please , and always ...
... just to me s But Brutus fays they are perfidious ; And Brutus is an honourable man . I fpeak not to disprove what Brutus spoke ; But here I am to speak what I do know . I found them all animated with a de- fire to please , and always ...
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... just arrived from his own country . He was pretty dull , and very pert ; and a Wit who undertook to perfifler him , and to divert the company at his expence , afked him , among other questions ; " Pray , Sir , are there any women in Ger ...
... just arrived from his own country . He was pretty dull , and very pert ; and a Wit who undertook to perfifler him , and to divert the company at his expence , afked him , among other questions ; " Pray , Sir , are there any women in Ger ...
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Page 84 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 190 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 42 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 148 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 40 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 147 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Page 51 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 197 - Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
Page 194 - ... them in ; or to place them in an attitude, in which they have not been already placed. But talking of a nation, if one did not say something about so considerable a part of it, the subject must appear mutilated and imperfect. As brevity is the soul of wit...
Page 176 - I'll do them juftice. Let every man who knows that nation fpeak of it as he found it; if he lived in their intimacy for years (as I did), and if he found them ill-natured, ill-mannered, treacherous, and cowardly, let him fpeak his mind. I quarrel with no man who judges for himfelf, and who fpsaks the truth.