Letters by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals: with Notes Explanatory and Historical, Svazek 1John Duncombe J. Johnson, 1772 |
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Strana 255 - Then, roused anew to wrath, he loudly cries, (Flames, while he spoke, came flashing from his eyes) " Traitor ! dost thou, dost thou to grace pretend, Clad, as thou art, in trophies of my friend ? To his sad soul a grateful offering go ! 'Tis Pallas, Pallas gives this deadly blow.
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Strana 78 - I think the town might be sometimes entertained with dialogue, which will be a new way of writing, either related or set down in form under the names of different speakers ; and sometimes with essays, or with discourses in the person of the writer of the paper.
Strana 47 - ... in which others would have been vain of dependence: he was liberal even when he was poor, and remembered his former friends when he was rich.
Strana 159 - Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, And now he mounts above me.