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... ORIGINAL PAINTING . MISCELLANEOUS . Preface ........ Memoirs of Dr. Thornton Memoirs of Mr. Valentine Green On the Regalia of England Notes on Athenæus Laws ........ The Gallantry , Sports , and Genius of the Age . Rousseau's ...
... ORIGINAL PAINTING . MISCELLANEOUS . Preface ........ Memoirs of Dr. Thornton Memoirs of Mr. Valentine Green On the Regalia of England Notes on Athenæus Laws ........ The Gallantry , Sports , and Genius of the Age . Rousseau's ...
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... original debt , and taxed costs . The law is besides so overloaded with stamp - duties and office- fees , that these , together with the fees of counsel and attornies , are sufficient to deter men from seeking redress at all ; in the ...
... original debt , and taxed costs . The law is besides so overloaded with stamp - duties and office- fees , that these , together with the fees of counsel and attornies , are sufficient to deter men from seeking redress at all ; in the ...
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... original letter containing the order issued at the Re- formation , as given in the Stat . Acc . of Dunkeld , p . 422 . “ To our traist friendis the lairds of Arntilly and Kinvaid . " Traist friendis , after maist harty commendacion , we ...
... original letter containing the order issued at the Re- formation , as given in the Stat . Acc . of Dunkeld , p . 422 . “ To our traist friendis the lairds of Arntilly and Kinvaid . " Traist friendis , after maist harty commendacion , we ...
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... original of the following curious note is still in the possession of Dr. Wolcot : " I promise to paint , for Dr. Wolcot , any picture or pictures he may demand , as long as I live ; otherwise I desire the world will con- sider me as a d ...
... original of the following curious note is still in the possession of Dr. Wolcot : " I promise to paint , for Dr. Wolcot , any picture or pictures he may demand , as long as I live ; otherwise I desire the world will con- sider me as a d ...
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... coincidence between the nineteenth sonnet of Petrarch , " Sio credessi per morte esser searco- and the celebrated soliloquy in HAMLET ? 17 . C. L 1 ORIGINAL POETRY . HORACE IN LONDON . BOOK III 34 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... coincidence between the nineteenth sonnet of Petrarch , " Sio credessi per morte esser searco- and the celebrated soliloquy in HAMLET ? 17 . C. L 1 ORIGINAL POETRY . HORACE IN LONDON . BOOK III 34 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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Page 99 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use: we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political.
Page 24 - ... fell asleep. Before he awoke, two ladies, who were foreigners, passed by in a carriage. Agreeably astonished at the loveliness of his appearance, they alighted, and having admired him (as they thought) unperceived, for some time, the youngest, who was very handsome, drew a pencil from her pocket, and having written some lines upon a piece of paper, put it with her trembling hand into his own.
Page 102 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Page 170 - And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 39 - A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
Page 76 - Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods again...
Page 287 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 27 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back.
Page 227 - Your trifle's no trifle, I ween, To customers prudent as I am ; Your peas in December are green, But I'm not so green as to buy 'em. • With ven'son I seldom am fed — Go bring me the sirloin, you ninny ; Who dines at a guinea a head Will ne'er by his head get a guinea...
Page 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.