Eighteenth Century EssaysK. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1882 - 284 páginas |
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... learning on the other side eight years old . I perceived him a very great historian in Æsop's Fables : but he frankly declared to me his mind , that he did not delight in that learning , be- cause he did not believe they were true ; for ...
... learning on the other side eight years old . I perceived him a very great historian in Æsop's Fables : but he frankly declared to me his mind , that he did not delight in that learning , be- cause he did not believe they were true ; for ...
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... greatest wit among them , and am heard as their oracle in all points of learning and difficulty . Sir Jeoffrey Notch , who is the oldest of the club , has has been in possession of the right - hand chair 18 THE TRUMPET CLUB .
... greatest wit among them , and am heard as their oracle in all points of learning and difficulty . Sir Jeoffrey Notch , who is the oldest of the club , has has been in possession of the right - hand chair 18 THE TRUMPET CLUB .
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... learning , but no knowledge of the world ; insomuch that the Major sometimes , in the height of his military pride , calls me the Philosopher : and Sir Jeoffrey , no longer ago than last night , upon a dispute what day of the month it ...
... learning , but no knowledge of the world ; insomuch that the Major sometimes , in the height of his military pride , calls me the Philosopher : and Sir Jeoffrey , no longer ago than last night , upon a dispute what day of the month it ...
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... learning , employed TOM There to get together good editions , and stock the libraries of great men . There is not a sale of books begins till Tom Folio is seen at the door . There is not an auction where his name is not heard , and that ...
... learning , employed TOM There to get together good editions , and stock the libraries of great men . There is not a sale of books begins till Tom Folio is seen at the door . There is not an auction where his name is not heard , and that ...
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... learning and substantial criticism . As for those who talk of the fineness of style , and the justness of thought , or describe the brightness of any particular passages ; nay , though they themselves write in the genius and spirit of ...
... learning and substantial criticism . As for those who talk of the fineness of style , and the justness of thought , or describe the brightness of any particular passages ; nay , though they themselves write in the genius and spirit of ...
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Página 15 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 260 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Página 138 - Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 258 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 147 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Página 261 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 77 - WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise of the Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court.
Página 144 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Página 260 - His great grandfather was inventor of that famous countrydance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir ROGER. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 99 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.