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... of soldiering he quitted the army shortly after obtaining his company , and led an irregular , roystering life about town , writing comedies which were not particularly successful , writing poems and articles INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . 11.
... of soldiering he quitted the army shortly after obtaining his company , and led an irregular , roystering life about town , writing comedies which were not particularly successful , writing poems and articles INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . 11.
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... town that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and coquettes ; but in such a manner as even pleased them , and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth . Instead of complying with the false sentiments or vicious ...
... town that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and coquettes ; but in such a manner as even pleased them , and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth . Instead of complying with the false sentiments or vicious ...
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... town as it was to the squire in his manor house or the parson in his vicarage . A new feature in the literature of the day , it received without stint the patronage of the powerful and the affluent . It was all that the novel and the ...
... town as it was to the squire in his manor house or the parson in his vicarage . A new feature in the literature of the day , it received without stint the patronage of the powerful and the affluent . It was all that the novel and the ...
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... town on account of the heavy losses they had sustained . " Oh the damned vice ! " cries Steele , " that women can imagine all household care , regard to posterity and fear of poverty must be sacrificed to a game at cards . " When her ...
... town on account of the heavy losses they had sustained . " Oh the damned vice ! " cries Steele , " that women can imagine all household care , regard to posterity and fear of poverty must be sacrificed to a game at cards . " When her ...
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... town , or punted with the best of company at the gaming - house of the Groom Porter - an official specially appointed to preside over gambling , and regulate its conditions . The Groom Porter's was a favourite haunt of the cold and ...
... town , or punted with the best of company at the gaming - house of the Groom Porter - an official specially appointed to preside over gambling , and regulate its conditions . The Groom Porter's was a favourite haunt of the cold and ...
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Page 164 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Page 147 - His mother between laughing and chiding would have put him out of the room ; but I would not part with him so. I found upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old.
Page 387 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought : him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Page 146 - My friend, who is always extremely delighted with her agreeable humour, made her sit down with us. She did it with that easiness which is peculiar to women of sense; and to keep up the good humour she had brought in with her, turned her raillery upon me.
Page 259 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Page 146 - He would have gone on in this tender way, when the good lady entered, and, with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance, told us she had been searching her closet for something very good, to treat such an old friend as I was.
Page 270 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 110 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 305 - ... 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" ; for I know not how I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 464 - ... her branches to the seas and to the floods. The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes ; I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart; I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of all men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them, neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness.