Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, 2. kötetauthor, 1817 - 852 oldal |
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... correct plan of it , for his Book of Drawings of the like British Antiquities . His Dissertations on the British works at Bath and Stanton Dru were incorporated into his description of Bath . I believe the superstition of our Bishops ...
... correct plan of it , for his Book of Drawings of the like British Antiquities . His Dissertations on the British works at Bath and Stanton Dru were incorporated into his description of Bath . I believe the superstition of our Bishops ...
72. oldal
... correct edition of them from the reverend and learned Mr. William Warburton , Author of The Divine Lega- tion of Moses demonstrated , ' who , in his Edition , besides a ge- peral Sir Thomas Hanmer has a true critical genius , and 72 ...
... correct edition of them from the reverend and learned Mr. William Warburton , Author of The Divine Lega- tion of Moses demonstrated , ' who , in his Edition , besides a ge- peral Sir Thomas Hanmer has a true critical genius , and 72 ...
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... correctly printed from the original Editions . To this is prefixed , An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. John Mil- ton , by Thomas Birch , M. A. and F. R. S. with an Appendix , containing two Dissertations ...
... correctly printed from the original Editions . To this is prefixed , An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. John Mil- ton , by Thomas Birch , M. A. and F. R. S. with an Appendix , containing two Dissertations ...
96. oldal
... correct all the mistakes and bad language , which must be numerous , they being wrote in a great hurry . I have seen Whitefield's Journal , and read it with great curiosity . The poor man is quite mad . Í could not but take notice of ...
... correct all the mistakes and bad language , which must be numerous , they being wrote in a great hurry . I have seen Whitefield's Journal , and read it with great curiosity . The poor man is quite mad . Í could not but take notice of ...
99. oldal
... correct them , but leave them in the present form of distinct Letters . Who has the pro- No Graduate of that name occurs . Of whom see the " Literary Anecdotes , " vol . III . p . 225 . H 2 perty perty of them ? If Robinson * , I would ...
... correct them , but leave them in the present form of distinct Letters . Who has the pro- No Graduate of that name occurs . Of whom see the " Literary Anecdotes , " vol . III . p . 225 . H 2 perty perty of them ? If Robinson * , I would ...
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198. oldal - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
726. oldal - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece, A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece, 'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespear, and Corneille, Can make a Gibber, Tibbald, or Ozell.
749. oldal - ... for half a year or more, the common newspapers (in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers) were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise...
693. oldal - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
717. oldal - Now May'rs and Shrieves all hush'd and satiate lay, Yet eat, in dreams, the custard of the day; While pensive Poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
73. oldal - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him.
195. oldal - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
587. oldal - Caora are a nation of people, whose heads appear not above their shoulders ; which, though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same : they are called Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
348. oldal - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
404. oldal - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.