The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesLeypoldt & Holt, 1867 - Počet stran: 309 |
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... comes the text for to - day's sermon . Of English parents , and of a good English family of clergymen , * Swift was born in Dublin in 1667 , He was from a younger branch of the Swifts of York- shire . His grandfather , the Rev. Thomas ...
... comes the text for to - day's sermon . Of English parents , and of a good English family of clergymen , * Swift was born in Dublin in 1667 , He was from a younger branch of the Swifts of York- shire . His grandfather , the Rev. Thomas ...
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... comes from an old Yorkshire family , and his mother from an old Leices- tershire one ! " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writings , concise and clear and strong . Be- ing one day at a Sheriff's ...
... comes from an old Yorkshire family , and his mother from an old Leices- tershire one ! " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writings , concise and clear and strong . Be- ing one day at a Sheriff's ...
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... comes down from his master with rage in his heart , and has not a kind word even for little Hester John- son ? — Perhaps for the Irish secretary , his Excellency's condescension was even more cruel than his frowns . Sir William would ...
... comes down from his master with rage in his heart , and has not a kind word even for little Hester John- son ? — Perhaps for the Irish secretary , his Excellency's condescension was even more cruel than his frowns . Sir William would ...
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A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. likely to come to the comic poet originally . The subject is before him . He is turning it in a thousand ways . He is full of it . The figure suggests itself naturally to him , and comes ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. likely to come to the comic poet originally . The subject is before him . He is turning it in a thousand ways . He is full of it . The figure suggests itself naturally to him , and comes ...
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... comes to be fourscore . For the law thinks it to be a reasonable in- dulgence that those who are condemned , without any fault of their own , to a perpetual continuance in the world , should not have their misery doubled by the load of ...
... comes to be fourscore . For the law thinks it to be a reasonable in- dulgence that those who are condemned , without any fault of their own , to a perpetual continuance in the world , should not have their misery doubled by the load of ...
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Strana 300 - 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 196 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Strana 196 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; 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 143 - 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 101 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Strana 88 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Strana 101 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ? What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ? In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine, " The Hand that made us is Divine.
Strana 34 - He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
Strana 174 - 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 24 - Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran, to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in jail, and published sermons.