The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volúmenes5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... body , he obtained her promise of marriage , which was ac- cordingly consummated eleven weeks after . There is no affliction comes alone , but one brings another . My sister is now ready to lie - in . She humbly asks of you , as you are ...
... body , he obtained her promise of marriage , which was ac- cordingly consummated eleven weeks after . There is no affliction comes alone , but one brings another . My sister is now ready to lie - in . She humbly asks of you , as you are ...
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... body , do by this my last will and testament bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis , To my dear wife , One box of butterflies , One drawer of shells , A female skeleton , A dried cockatrice . Item , To my ...
... body , do by this my last will and testament bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis , To my dear wife , One box of butterflies , One drawer of shells , A female skeleton , A dried cockatrice . Item , To my ...
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... body . His ambition is to be witty ; and to carry on that design he breaks through all things that other people hold sacred . If he thought that wit was no way to be used but to the advantage of society , that sprightli- ness would have ...
... body . His ambition is to be witty ; and to carry on that design he breaks through all things that other people hold sacred . If he thought that wit was no way to be used but to the advantage of society , that sprightli- ness would have ...
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... body of the letter ; but she bids me turn over , and there I find ' MR . BICKERSTAFF , ' If you will draw Mrs. Cicely Trippet according to the enclosed description , I will forgive you all . ' TO ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esquire . ' The ...
... body of the letter ; but she bids me turn over , and there I find ' MR . BICKERSTAFF , ' If you will draw Mrs. Cicely Trippet according to the enclosed description , I will forgive you all . ' TO ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esquire . ' The ...
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... body of men together , and to let them know friends from enemies . I must confess I have considered , with some little attention , the influence which the opinions of these great national sects have upon their practice ; and do look ...
... body of men together , and to let them know friends from enemies . I must confess I have considered , with some little attention , the influence which the opinions of these great national sects have upon their practice ; and do look ...
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Página 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 31 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Página 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Página 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Página 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Página 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.