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He was an excellent mathematician and physician , of which his letter on the
Usefulness of Mathematical Learning , and his Treatise on Air and Aliment , are
sufficient proofs . His tables of ancient coins , weights , and measures , are the
work ...
He was an excellent mathematician and physician , of which his letter on the
Usefulness of Mathematical Learning , and his Treatise on Air and Aliment , are
sufficient proofs . His tables of ancient coins , weights , and measures , are the
work ...
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... that allowed too little to an excellent understanding . The other two , with very
bad heads , had hearts still worse . W . Ver . 148 . While pure Description held the
place of Sense ? ] He uses pure equivocally , to signify either chaste or empty ...
... that allowed too little to an excellent understanding . The other two , with very
bad heads , had hearts still worse . W . Ver . 148 . While pure Description held the
place of Sense ? ] He uses pure equivocally , to signify either chaste or empty ...
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W . - I shall add to this note an unpublished letter from my learned and excellent
friend Mr . James Harris of Salisbury , addressed to Mr . John Upton , the editor of
Spenser , and author of Observations on Shakspeare . “ My good friend , “ I am ...
W . - I shall add to this note an unpublished letter from my learned and excellent
friend Mr . James Harris of Salisbury , addressed to Mr . John Upton , the editor of
Spenser , and author of Observations on Shakspeare . “ My good friend , “ I am ...
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The friendship of two such excellent personages as the Duke and Dutchess of
Queensberry , did , in truth , compensate poor Gay ' s want of pension and
preferment . They behaved to him constantly with that delicacy and sense of
seeming ...
The friendship of two such excellent personages as the Duke and Dutchess of
Queensberry , did , in truth , compensate poor Gay ' s want of pension and
preferment . They behaved to him constantly with that delicacy and sense of
seeming ...
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This motto suited the free and easy manner of Horace ; not the more solemn
tones of his imitator . Pope told Mr . Spence , that he wrote this Imitation in two
mornings , excellent as it is . ADVERTISEMENT . The Occasion of publishing
these ...
This motto suited the free and easy manner of Horace ; not the more solemn
tones of his imitator . Pope told Mr . Spence , that he wrote this Imitation in two
mornings , excellent as it is . ADVERTISEMENT . The Occasion of publishing
these ...
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Seite 26 - 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 26 - 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 388 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 321 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Seite 69 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 31 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Seite 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Seite 47 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 28 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?