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Solomon Grildrig. THE MINIATURE . NUMB . I. MONDAY , April 23 , 1804 . Præcepta canam , celabitur auctor . My precepts I fhall willingly reveal , And fing my doctrines , but my name conceal . FRANCIS . A YOUNG actor making his début upon ...
Solomon Grildrig. THE MINIATURE . NUMB . I. MONDAY , April 23 , 1804 . Præcepta canam , celabitur auctor . My precepts I fhall willingly reveal , And fing my doctrines , but my name conceal . FRANCIS . A YOUNG actor making his début upon ...
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... MINIATURE , and while the touches are lefs daring , while less force , and richness of imagi- nation may be confpicuous in the following sketches , they may perhaps derive fome merit in an humbler scale , from correctness of defign ...
... MINIATURE , and while the touches are lefs daring , while less force , and richness of imagi- nation may be confpicuous in the following sketches , they may perhaps derive fome merit in an humbler scale , from correctness of defign ...
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... , an edit is iffued for the total banifhment of my papers from every fhop , except that of the grocer , and paftry- cook , and myself to be deprived of the ufe 4 THE MINIATURE . Nations, from Barbarism to Civiliza- tion.
... , an edit is iffued for the total banifhment of my papers from every fhop , except that of the grocer , and paftry- cook , and myself to be deprived of the ufe 4 THE MINIATURE . Nations, from Barbarism to Civiliza- tion.
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... the extended circles of the world at large ; the author would refort to the leffer circles of his fel- low - citizens , and there at least hope to be free from C arbitrary cenfure , and illiberal feverity : as a mem- THE MINIATURE . 9 Page.
... the extended circles of the world at large ; the author would refort to the leffer circles of his fel- low - citizens , and there at least hope to be free from C arbitrary cenfure , and illiberal feverity : as a mem- THE MINIATURE . 9 Page.
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Страница 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Страница 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Страница 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Страница 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Страница 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Страница 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Страница 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Страница 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Страница 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Страница 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;