Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 страници |
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... existence , however , no other proof now remains than what is to be found in the pages of Addison . † 3. The TIT FOR TAT , the first number of which appeared on March 2d , 1709-10 , was published under the assumed Name of John Partridge ...
... existence , however , no other proof now remains than what is to be found in the pages of Addison . † 3. The TIT FOR TAT , the first number of which appeared on March 2d , 1709-10 , was published under the assumed Name of John Partridge ...
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... existence scarcely , a trace remains . It is noticed , however , by Gay in his Essay on the Present State of Wit , and is there Isaid to have been christened the Tell Tale in order to please the ladies . 7. THE GAZETTE A - LA - MODE ...
... existence scarcely , a trace remains . It is noticed , however , by Gay in his Essay on the Present State of Wit , and is there Isaid to have been christened the Tell Tale in order to please the ladies . 7. THE GAZETTE A - LA - MODE ...
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... existence to Sir Richard Blackmore ; and the sixth , the portrait of Ned Freeman , is the conception of Mr. Hughes . They are supported with consist- ency and spirit ; and it was the opinion of Hughes , that , had not Sir Richard been ...
... existence to Sir Richard Blackmore ; and the sixth , the portrait of Ned Freeman , is the conception of Mr. Hughes . They are supported with consist- ency and spirit ; and it was the opinion of Hughes , that , had not Sir Richard been ...
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... existence , she produced the follow- ing effusions of fancy . The Female Spectator ; Epistles for the Ladies ; Fortunate Foundling ; Adventures of Nature ; History of Betsy Thought- less ; Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy ; Invisible Spy ; The ...
... existence , she produced the follow- ing effusions of fancy . The Female Spectator ; Epistles for the Ladies ; Fortunate Foundling ; Adventures of Nature ; History of Betsy Thought- less ; Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy ; Invisible Spy ; The ...
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... existence ; nor was this the only disease with which he had to struggle ; from his nurse , he imbibed the distemper called the king's evil , and for the removal of which his parents , who were staunch Jacobites , presented him to Queen ...
... existence ; nor was this the only disease with which he had to struggle ; from his nurse , he imbibed the distemper called the king's evil , and for the removal of which his parents , who were staunch Jacobites , presented him to Queen ...
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Страница 134 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Страница 398 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
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Страница 367 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Страница 332 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
Страница 301 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Страница 193 - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Страница 330 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Страница 248 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.