Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. R. Smith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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... played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . - He introduced us to a ball , where he presided , and you cannot conceive how busy the good old gentleman was among the ladies from the eldest to the youngest . He would whisper each as soon ...
... played him some scurvy tricks in his youth . - He introduced us to a ball , where he presided , and you cannot conceive how busy the good old gentleman was among the ladies from the eldest to the youngest . He would whisper each as soon ...
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... play , struck at him with her horns ; tore off his hat , wounded him in the throat ; beat him down , and trampled over him . - Mrs . Racket , his sister , who was older than him ; and was by when it happened . * Ben Jonson was found ...
... play , struck at him with her horns ; tore off his hat , wounded him in the throat ; beat him down , and trampled over him . - Mrs . Racket , his sister , who was older than him ; and was by when it happened . * Ben Jonson was found ...
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... played booty ; and that it was so far from a paradox , that it was a plain and evident truth . * — B . As to the general design of Providence , the two extremes of vice may serve ( like two opposite biases ) to keep up the balance of ...
... played booty ; and that it was so far from a paradox , that it was a plain and evident truth . * — B . As to the general design of Providence , the two extremes of vice may serve ( like two opposite biases ) to keep up the balance of ...
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... plays . Sackville imitates the manner of Seneca's tragedies very closely , and writes without affectation or bombast ; the two great sins of our oldest tragic writers . The Induction in the Mirrour for Magistrates was written by him too ...
... plays . Sackville imitates the manner of Seneca's tragedies very closely , and writes without affectation or bombast ; the two great sins of our oldest tragic writers . The Induction in the Mirrour for Magistrates was written by him too ...
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... play with ; he would cripple one , and put out the eyes of another . This much alarmed some people ; at first , they were very apprehensive that he might be as barbarous to men , as he was to his birds , when he should come to have them ...
... play with ; he would cripple one , and put out the eyes of another . This much alarmed some people ; at first , they were very apprehensive that he might be as barbarous to men , as he was to his birds , when he should come to have them ...
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