The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder, 1853 - 322 стор. |
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... present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes , the melancholy patient whom the Doctor advised to go and see Harlequin ' · a man full of cares and perplexities like the rest of us , whose Self must always be ...
... present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes , the melancholy patient whom the Doctor advised to go and see Harlequin ' · a man full of cares and perplexities like the rest of us , whose Self must always be ...
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... present , you will not look to find , in the histories of those whose lives and feelings I am going to try and describe to you , a story that is otherwise than serious , and often very sad . If Humour only meant laughter , you would ...
... present , you will not look to find , in the histories of those whose lives and feelings I am going to try and describe to you , a story that is otherwise than serious , and often very sad . If Humour only meant laughter , you would ...
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... present , I fear is only very likely ) , his equal in mere social station , he would have bullied , scorned , and insulted you ; if , undeterred by his great reputation , you had met him like a man , he would have quailed before you ...
... present , I fear is only very likely ) , his equal in mere social station , he would have bullied , scorned , and insulted you ; if , undeterred by his great reputation , you had met him like a man , he would have quailed before you ...
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... present itself under the ambrosial wig , or Temple could never have lived with Swift . Swift sickened , rebelled , left the service , -ate humble pie and came back again ; and so for ten years went on , gathering learning , swallowing ...
... present itself under the ambrosial wig , or Temple could never have lived with Swift . Swift sickened , rebelled , left the service , -ate humble pie and came back again ; and so for ten years went on , gathering learning , swallowing ...
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... for any- thing further than for infirmities . This is all I dare at present beg from your Honour , under circumstances of life not worth your regard : what is left me to wish ( next to the health and prosperity of your Honour SWIFT . 23.
... for any- thing further than for infirmities . This is all I dare at present beg from your Honour , under circumstances of life not worth your regard : what is left me to wish ( next to the health and prosperity of your Honour SWIFT . 23.
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Сторінка 34 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Сторінка 147 - 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.
Сторінка 297 - 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.
Сторінка 217 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Сторінка 311 - 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 our life's taper at the close And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Сторінка 312 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Сторінка 216 - 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
Сторінка 100 - I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, 'till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Сторінка 149 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 93 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.