Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous, EtcW. Pickering, 1852 - 312 страници |
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... ancient custom and it is more honour for a man to have it asked , why he had not a suitable return to his merits , than why he was overpaid . " : Looking at the actors in this great Drama , ( the glorious Revolution of 1688 , ) we have ...
... ancient custom and it is more honour for a man to have it asked , why he had not a suitable return to his merits , than why he was overpaid . " : Looking at the actors in this great Drama , ( the glorious Revolution of 1688 , ) we have ...
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... ancients . A Lacedæmonian tutor , being asked , What he would teach his disciple , replied , Honor : intimating that all precepts are contained in that . 31 66 Though the lowest orders of the Chinese are cer- C DULNESS 2 - making war ...
... ancients . A Lacedæmonian tutor , being asked , What he would teach his disciple , replied , Honor : intimating that all precepts are contained in that . 31 66 Though the lowest orders of the Chinese are cer- C DULNESS 2 - making war ...
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... ancient Briton , majestic even in his semi - barba- rism - the godlike Roman — the generous and valiant Celt -the hardy Pict and Scot - the Dane , and the noblest offspring of the great Scandinavian tribes , brave , adven- turous and ...
... ancient Briton , majestic even in his semi - barba- rism - the godlike Roman — the generous and valiant Celt -the hardy Pict and Scot - the Dane , and the noblest offspring of the great Scandinavian tribes , brave , adven- turous and ...
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... ancient learning's page august With hand most reverent sweep the dust ! And from Academic bowers Cast the weeds , but spare the flowers.68 From the courts above a visitor , ( Mr. Motley the inquisitor ! ) 65 The Athenians were a politic ...
... ancient learning's page august With hand most reverent sweep the dust ! And from Academic bowers Cast the weeds , but spare the flowers.68 From the courts above a visitor , ( Mr. Motley the inquisitor ! ) 65 The Athenians were a politic ...
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... ancient times , had its rivals , viz . - The New Exchange or Britain's Burse at Durham House , and the Middle Exchange ( nearest to London ) at Salisbury House . The citizens became jealous of these marts , and in a letter from Mr ...
... ancient times , had its rivals , viz . - The New Exchange or Britain's Burse at Durham House , and the Middle Exchange ( nearest to London ) at Salisbury House . The citizens became jealous of these marts , and in a letter from Mr ...
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Страница 76 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history ; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Страница 297 - Tis a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend or to give in, But to beg or to borrow or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
Страница 235 - London, to thee I do present the merry month of May; Let each true subject be content to hear me what I say: For from the top of conduit-head, as plainly may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came here. My name is Ralph, by due descent though not ignoble I, Yet far inferior to the flock of gracious grocery...
Страница 32 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose.
Страница 290 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Страница 32 - I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What...
Страница 35 - Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again.
Страница 32 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Страница 210 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.