Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Typographical anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer's press 1699 to 1731. Essays and illustrationsauthor, 1812 |
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... copy , and in reduc- ing the chaotic form of my original volume to some- what of a more regular consistence ; in May 1802 I once more began to print ; and , by slow degrees , had got through nearly half the Work , when my pro- gress was ...
... copy , and in reduc- ing the chaotic form of my original volume to some- what of a more regular consistence ; in May 1802 I once more began to print ; and , by slow degrees , had got through nearly half the Work , when my pro- gress was ...
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... copy - if you do not call for it sooner , and enlarge it with a second volume , to be intituled Anecdotes of J. N. and give the world two volumes of utile dulci . " Mr. Gough closed his communications with the specific bequest * which ...
... copy - if you do not call for it sooner , and enlarge it with a second volume , to be intituled Anecdotes of J. N. and give the world two volumes of utile dulci . " Mr. Gough closed his communications with the specific bequest * which ...
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... copy of it to his mas- ter , which his Highness looking into , and finding full of strange characters , called a council of the Dotti , and com → manded them to peruse and give him an account of . They did so , and reported it to be an ...
... copy of it to his mas- ter , which his Highness looking into , and finding full of strange characters , called a council of the Dotti , and com → manded them to peruse and give him an account of . They did so , and reported it to be an ...
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... copy of the Homily in the original Saxon , with the translation of Mrs. Elstob in an opposite column . The Fourth Volume of " Dean Stanhope's Para- phrase and Comment upon the Epistles and Gos- pels ; beginning with the Feast of St ...
... copy of the Homily in the original Saxon , with the translation of Mrs. Elstob in an opposite column . The Fourth Volume of " Dean Stanhope's Para- phrase and Comment upon the Epistles and Gos- pels ; beginning with the Feast of St ...
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... Copy ; " dedicated to Sir Richard Steele . [ by Charles Gildon ; ] 8vo . the Creation of Mankind ; " the other " On Human Actions . " This article is abridged from a life of Mr. Keble which ap- peared in " The Postboy , " Sept. 19 ...
... Copy ; " dedicated to Sir Richard Steele . [ by Charles Gildon ; ] 8vo . the Creation of Mankind ; " the other " On Human Actions . " This article is abridged from a life of Mr. Keble which ap- peared in " The Postboy , " Sept. 19 ...
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Page 342 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 180 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page v - To adjust the minute events of literary history, is tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding, but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand.
Page 431 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Page 399 - Dr. Swift came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the antichamber to wait, before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests.
Page 400 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 703 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 424 - They crack their brains to find out selling subjects and keep hirelings in garrets, at hard meat, to write and correct by the great ; and so puff up an octavo to a sufficient thickness ; and there is six shillings current for an hour and a half's reading, and perhaps never to be read or looked upon after.
Page 445 - Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the NewTestament. By Christopher WORDSWORTH [now DD]. London, 1802. 8vo. Price 4s. 6d. The Doctrine of the Greek Article applied to the Criticism and Illustration of the New Testament.
Page 53 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.