Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Всего страниц: 472 |
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Стр. iii
... give him many an ague fit - and make him repent of his temerity , and wish he had otherwise employed his time . Whether this be , as I suppose , correct with respect to other writers , it is literally true as regards myself . If I felt ...
... give him many an ague fit - and make him repent of his temerity , and wish he had otherwise employed his time . Whether this be , as I suppose , correct with respect to other writers , it is literally true as regards myself . If I felt ...
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... give this trifle a fourth edition , I shall add all that may be communicated in the in- terim ; otherwise I shall probably publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE ...
... give this trifle a fourth edition , I shall add all that may be communicated in the in- terim ; otherwise I shall probably publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE ...
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... gives me pleasure to add , that she still lives , notwithstanding her very hazardous exploit . The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the circus took the alarm , and threatened to burn or destroy it , unless the sick were removed ; and ...
... gives me pleasure to add , that she still lives , notwithstanding her very hazardous exploit . The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the circus took the alarm , and threatened to burn or destroy it , unless the sick were removed ; and ...
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... The novel of Arthur Mervyn , by C. B. Brown , gives a vivid and terrify . ing picture , probably not too highly coloured , of the horrors of that period . D was delivered of a child , which died in a ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 25.
... The novel of Arthur Mervyn , by C. B. Brown , gives a vivid and terrify . ing picture , probably not too highly coloured , of the horrors of that period . D was delivered of a child , which died in a ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 25.
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... give enough , we generally heap the measure . When we are so solicitous to deter by reproach from folly , vice , and crime , why not be equally disposed to stimulate to virtue and heroism , by freely bestowing the well - earned plaudit ...
... give enough , we generally heap the measure . When we are so solicitous to deter by reproach from folly , vice , and crime , why not be equally disposed to stimulate to virtue and heroism , by freely bestowing the well - earned plaudit ...
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Стр. 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Стр. 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Стр. 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Стр. 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Стр. 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Стр. 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Стр. 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Стр. 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Стр. 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Стр. 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.