MiscellaniesDent, 1893 |
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Strana 52 - Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin.
Strana 89 - Ghost. Arthur, beware ! I must this moment hence, Not frighted by your voice, but by the cocks ! Arthur, beware, beware, beware, beware ! Strive to avert thy yet impending fate ; For, if thou'rt kill'd to-day, To-morrow all thy care will come too late.
Strana 94 - His mother milked the cow; And yet the way to get a son This couple knew not how. Until such time the good old man To learned Merlin goes, And there to him, in great distress...
Strana 80 - So, when the Cheshire cheese a maggot breeds, Another and another still succeeds : By thousands and ten thousands they increase, Till one continued maggot fills the rotten cheese.
Strana 13 - If you must write, write nonsense, write operas, write Hurlothrumbos, set up an oratory and preach nonsense, and you may meet with encouragement enough. Be profane, be scurrilous, be immodest: if you would receive applause, deserve to receive sentence at the Old Bailey; and if you would ride in a coach, deserve to ride in a cart.
Strana 52 - Till my whole court be drowned with their tears ; Nay, till they overflow my utmost land, And leave me nothing but the sea to rule. Dood. My liege, I a petition have here got. King. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk ; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Strana 66 - Taylor put this Warrant in my Hands, And I arrest you, Sir, at his Commands. Thumb. Ha! Dogs! Arrest my Friend before my Face! Think you Tom Thumb will suffer this Disgrace! But let vain Cowards threaten by their Word, 30 Tom Thumb shall shew his Anger by his Sword.
Strana 61 - This Epithet to a Dolphin doth not give one so clear an Idea as were to be wished, a smiling Fish seeming a little more difficult to be imagined than a flying Fish. Mr. Dryden is of Opinion, that smiling is the Property of Reason, and that no irrational Creature can smile. Smiles not allowed to Beasts from Reason move.
Strana 48 - That learned Historian Mr. S n in the third Number of his Criticism on our Author, takes great Pains to explode this Passage. It is, says he, difficult to guess what Giants are here meant, unless the Giant Despair in the Pilgrim's Progress , or the Giant Greatness in the Royal Villain ; for I have heard of no other sort of Giants in the Reign of King Arthur.
Strana 220 - But what should we say to a man who mounted his chamber-hobby, or fought with his own shadow, for his amusement only ? how much more absurd and weak would he appear who swallowed poison because it was sweet ? How differently did Horace think of study from our modern readers ! Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum : Condo et compono, quae mox deproraere possim.