History of John Bull. Essays. PoetryJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... hand , and step by step , the gentle down hill way to the bathos ; the bottom , the end , the cen- tral point , the non plus ultra , of true modern poesy ! When B 2 When I consider ( my dear countrymen ) the ex- VINNOJIVO.
... hand , and step by step , the gentle down hill way to the bathos ; the bottom , the end , the cen- tral point , the non plus ultra , of true modern poesy ! When B 2 When I consider ( my dear countrymen ) the ex- VINNOJIVO.
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... hand unroll'd * ? A BUTLER . He measures all the drops with wondrous skill , Which the black clouds , his floating bottles , fill t . And a BAKER . God in the wilderness his table spread , And in his airy ovens bak'd their bread ...
... hand unroll'd * ? A BUTLER . He measures all the drops with wondrous skill , Which the black clouds , his floating bottles , fill t . And a BAKER . God in the wilderness his table spread , And in his airy ovens bak'd their bread ...
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... hand : I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical ...
... hand : I leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical ...
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... hand of sweeping time shall have brushed off all the works of to - day , may this testi- mony of a contemporary critick to their fame be ex- tended as far as to - morrow . Yet if to so wise an administration it be possible any thing can ...
... hand of sweeping time shall have brushed off all the works of to - day , may this testi- mony of a contemporary critick to their fame be ex- tended as far as to - morrow . Yet if to so wise an administration it be possible any thing can ...
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... hand . Ye prudes and censorious old maids ( the hopes of the bench ) exert but your usual talent of finding faults , and the laws will be strictly executed ; only I would not have you proceed upon such slender evi- dences as you have ...
... hand . Ye prudes and censorious old maids ( the hopes of the bench ) exert but your usual talent of finding faults , and the laws will be strictly executed ; only I would not have you proceed upon such slender evi- dences as you have ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 419 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 419 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 115 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Seite 111 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Seite 471 - Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Seite 106 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Seite 418 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 113 - Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ) "Boast not my fall
Seite 461 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Seite 418 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...