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, Volume 2author, 1817 - 852 pages |
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... matter has been a real concern to me ; but would be much greater , did I not think you was well assured how much I am , dear Sir , Your sincere friend and obedient humble servant , W. WARBURTON . My humble service to good Mrs. Stukeley ...
... matter has been a real concern to me ; but would be much greater , did I not think you was well assured how much I am , dear Sir , Your sincere friend and obedient humble servant , W. WARBURTON . My humble service to good Mrs. Stukeley ...
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... matter that relates only to his support , not at all to his morals . I might , indeed , easily have imagined you would have set me right when I saw you , and so might have well spared my reflections on it ; but you will be so good as to ...
... matter that relates only to his support , not at all to his morals . I might , indeed , easily have imagined you would have set me right when I saw you , and so might have well spared my reflections on it ; but you will be so good as to ...
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... matter to me . -- you Dear Sir , I am in hopes to see you at the Visita- tion , to have your company home . I intend to be at Grantham on Sunday night , because I know you -come over - night , that I may have as much of your company as ...
... matter to me . -- you Dear Sir , I am in hopes to see you at the Visita- tion , to have your company home . I intend to be at Grantham on Sunday night , because I know you -come over - night , that I may have as much of your company as ...
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... matter is admirably just ; and I cannot but compare myself to a starving chemist , who despises wealth got the ordinary way , so intent is he on his imagi- nary elixir ; while he sees under his nose an honest retailer of muddy porter ...
... matter is admirably just ; and I cannot but compare myself to a starving chemist , who despises wealth got the ordinary way , so intent is he on his imagi- nary elixir ; while he sees under his nose an honest retailer of muddy porter ...
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... matter . Mat Bradford has at length followed my Lord Howe * into the New World . Indeed , last summer he sang most musically , like the departing swan , on the banks of the Trent , in a dismal Elegy on the Duchess of Rutland's death ...
... matter . Mat Bradford has at length followed my Lord Howe * into the New World . Indeed , last summer he sang most musically , like the departing swan , on the banks of the Trent , in a dismal Elegy on the Duchess of Rutland's death ...
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Page 196 - 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.
Page 715 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 71 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Page 193 - 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.
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Page 402 - 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.
Page 581 - 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.
Page 709 - 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.
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