The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder, 1863 - Počet stran: 341 |
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... written a most in- teresting volume on the closing years of Swift's life , calls Johnson " the most malignant of his biographers : " it is not easy for an English critic to please Irishmen - perhaps to try and please them . And yet ...
... written a most in- teresting volume on the closing years of Swift's life , calls Johnson " the most malignant of his biographers : " it is not easy for an English critic to please Irishmen - perhaps to try and please them . And yet ...
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... written a foul epigram about you— watched for you in a sewer , and come out to assail you with a coward's blow and a dirty bludgeon . If you had been a lord with a blue riband , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition , he ...
... written a foul epigram about you— watched for you in a sewer , and come out to assail you with a coward's blow and a dirty bludgeon . If you had been a lord with a blue riband , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition , he ...
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... writing at Temple's table , or following his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them , looking up from his silent corner , gauged their brains , weighed their wits ...
... writing at Temple's table , or following his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them , looking up from his silent corner , gauged their brains , weighed their wits ...
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... writing ) , or running away with your master's niece or daughter , I directly advise you to go upon the road , which is ... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a holland shirt and white ...
... writing ) , or running away with your master's niece or daughter , I directly advise you to go upon the road , which is ... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a holland shirt and white ...
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... the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . . . . . . . Why , sir , Tom Davies might have written the ' Conduct of the Allies ! " " - Bos- WELL'S Life of Johnson . - he was acts and rough manners . His hand SWIFT . 27.
... the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . . . . . . . Why , sir , Tom Davies might have written the ' Conduct of the Allies ! " " - Bos- WELL'S Life of Johnson . - he was acts and rough manners . His hand SWIFT . 27.
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Strana 331 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Strana 214 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Strana 156 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Strana 330 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Strana 316 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Strana 331 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Strana 191 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Strana 189 - 'WAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring. All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook.
Strana 36 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially...
Strana 230 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus