A Satirical View of London; Or, A Descriptive Sketch of the English Metropolis: With Strictures on Men and MannersR. Ogle, 1804 - 214 страници |
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... excellent regulations for the preservation of the public tran- quility , unknown in other populous cities . It is to the original excellence of the English constitu → tion that we are principally indebted for the pre- sent opulence and ...
... excellent regulations for the preservation of the public tran- quility , unknown in other populous cities . It is to the original excellence of the English constitu → tion that we are principally indebted for the pre- sent opulence and ...
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... excellent critic , Dr. Samuel Johnson ; the illustrious philanthropist , Howard ; Captain Bur- gess , of the navy ; and General Abercrombie . St. Paul's Cathedral is open for Divine Service , at six o'clock in the morning , a quarter ...
... excellent critic , Dr. Samuel Johnson ; the illustrious philanthropist , Howard ; Captain Bur- gess , of the navy ; and General Abercrombie . St. Paul's Cathedral is open for Divine Service , at six o'clock in the morning , a quarter ...
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... excellent moralist and critic , Dr. Johnson , are interred a few paces in front of the statue of Shakespeare ; but the admirer of genius looks around , in vain , for a memorial of our sweetest bard , the elegant Pope . The curiosities ...
... excellent moralist and critic , Dr. Johnson , are interred a few paces in front of the statue of Shakespeare ; but the admirer of genius looks around , in vain , for a memorial of our sweetest bard , the elegant Pope . The curiosities ...
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... excellent regulations . The most remarkable are West - Smithfield , for cattle and horses ; Leadenhall , Newgate , and Fleet markets , for butchers meat ; and Covent Garden for vege- tables and fruit . COURTS OF JUDICATURE , PRISONS ...
... excellent regulations . The most remarkable are West - Smithfield , for cattle and horses ; Leadenhall , Newgate , and Fleet markets , for butchers meat ; and Covent Garden for vege- tables and fruit . COURTS OF JUDICATURE , PRISONS ...
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... excellent regulation is the Two - penny Post Office . There are several receiving houses in the metropolis and its environs , for letters to be conveyed by the Twopenny post . The two prin- cipal offices are , one at the General - Post ...
... excellent regulation is the Two - penny Post Office . There are several receiving houses in the metropolis and its environs , for letters to be conveyed by the Twopenny post . The two prin- cipal offices are , one at the General - Post ...
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Страница 45 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Страница 60 - I cannot help venturing to disoblige them for their service, by telling them, that the utmost of a woman's character is contained in domestic life ; she is blameable or praise-worthy according as her carriage affects the house of her father, or her husband. All she has to do in this world, is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother.
Страница 74 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years. The mind impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That education gives her, false or true.
Страница 200 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Страница 36 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Страница 126 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to Fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
Страница 153 - Sam Ervin President Bush has demonstrated these attributes! ;-) Bush, Laura - First Lady "How goodness heightens beauty!" Hannah Mare "There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Страница 126 - And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO IV.
Страница 114 - Behold the picture! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Страница 160 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.