Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, 2. kötetC. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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... length relinquished in despair his political views , to embrace the still more hopeless scheme of gambling in the stocks . He began this ruinous practice in the year 1720 ; and very soon imbibing all the national en- thusiasm and ...
... length relinquished in despair his political views , to embrace the still more hopeless scheme of gambling in the stocks . He began this ruinous practice in the year 1720 ; and very soon imbibing all the national en- thusiasm and ...
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... length came to the dreadful resolution of annihilating at once his miseries and his exist- ence . He accordingly , on May the fourth , 1737 , after having filled his pockets with stones , took a boat at Somerset - stairs , and having ...
... length came to the dreadful resolution of annihilating at once his miseries and his exist- ence . He accordingly , on May the fourth , 1737 , after having filled his pockets with stones , took a boat at Somerset - stairs , and having ...
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... of errors and extravagances , which at length terminated in gaming , forgery , infidelity , and suicide . VOL . III . C Of the literary productions of Budgell , the contributions to BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 17.
... of errors and extravagances , which at length terminated in gaming , forgery , infidelity , and suicide . VOL . III . C Of the literary productions of Budgell , the contributions to BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES . 17.
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... length king Roderigo , having less credulity , but more courage and curiosity tham his ancestors , commanded this formidable recess to be opened . At entering , he began to suspect the traditions of the people to be true : a terri- the ...
... length king Roderigo , having less credulity , but more courage and curiosity tham his ancestors , commanded this formidable recess to be opened . At entering , he began to suspect the traditions of the people to be true : a terri- the ...
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... length in a succeed- ing page , he wrote , at the age of twenty - four , an Essay on the Pleasure of being Deceived , and , at subsequent periods of his life , an Essay on the Properties of Style ; two Dialogues of the Dead , in ...
... length in a succeed- ing page , he wrote , at the age of twenty - four , an Essay on the Pleasure of being Deceived , and , at subsequent periods of his life , an Essay on the Properties of Style ; two Dialogues of the Dead , in ...
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67. oldal - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
66. oldal - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
88. oldal - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
381. oldal - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
88. oldal - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
104. oldal - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
297. oldal - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
227. oldal - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
342. oldal - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
381. oldal - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.