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Page 38
... late slaves of the stage now become its masters , dunces that will be sure to suppress all theatrical entertain- ' ments and activities that they are not able them- selves to shine in ! Every man that goes to a play is not obliged to ...
... late slaves of the stage now become its masters , dunces that will be sure to suppress all theatrical entertain- ' ments and activities that they are not able them- selves to shine in ! Every man that goes to a play is not obliged to ...
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... late years , I should have no one ' great satisfaction left ; but if I live to the 10th of ' March , 1714 , and all my securities are good , I shall ' be worth fifty thousand pounds . ' I am , SIR , Your most humble Servant , ' MR ...
... late years , I should have no one ' great satisfaction left ; but if I live to the 10th of ' March , 1714 , and all my securities are good , I shall ' be worth fifty thousand pounds . ' I am , SIR , Your most humble Servant , ' MR ...
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... late designed procession of his holiness and his attendants , not- withstanding it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations . Among those advantages , which the public may reap from this paper , it is not the least ...
... late designed procession of his holiness and his attendants , not- withstanding it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations . Among those advantages , which the public may reap from this paper , it is not the least ...
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... late act of parliament for securing the church of England ; and told me with great satisfaction , that he believed it already began to take effect , for that a rigid dis- senter who chanced to dine at his house on Christ- mas day , had ...
... late act of parliament for securing the church of England ; and told me with great satisfaction , that he believed it already began to take effect , for that a rigid dis- senter who chanced to dine at his house on Christ- mas day , had ...
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... late quotation means no more than “ that • manners , and not dress , are the ornaments of a If this comes to the knowledge of my • female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to ' bring myself off handsomely . In the meanwhile , I ...
... late quotation means no more than “ that • manners , and not dress , are the ornaments of a If this comes to the knowledge of my • female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to ' bring myself off handsomely . In the meanwhile , I ...
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Page 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.