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... piece of condescension in a case which , considered in all its circumstances , is without example . However , as the king has taken this resolution , his Majesty will give immediate orders for the release both of Count Gyllenborg and ...
... piece of condescension in a case which , considered in all its circumstances , is without example . However , as the king has taken this resolution , his Majesty will give immediate orders for the release both of Count Gyllenborg and ...
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... piece he published in English , viz . a Poem to His Majesty King William III . , on the taking of Namur , in the year 1695 , ) recommended him to that Prince , who gave him a pension of £ 300 per annum , and sent him to travel . At his ...
... piece he published in English , viz . a Poem to His Majesty King William III . , on the taking of Namur , in the year 1695 , ) recommended him to that Prince , who gave him a pension of £ 300 per annum , and sent him to travel . At his ...
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... piece ; the images are chosen with a nice judgment , worked up with a delicacy of imagination , and placed in the strongest light . Everything strikes at the first view , and yet will bear the strictest eye to reexamine it . The ...
... piece ; the images are chosen with a nice judgment , worked up with a delicacy of imagination , and placed in the strongest light . Everything strikes at the first view , and yet will bear the strictest eye to reexamine it . The ...
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... piece is the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of fancy and humour which many years later enlivened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint ; and he ...
... piece is the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of fancy and humour which many years later enlivened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint ; and he ...
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... piece was laid ; Nor yet the painter had his art displayed , 1 Resurrectio delineata ad altare Coll . Magd . Oxon . Vol . i . p . 243 . With slower hand , and pencil more divine , He TRANSLATIONS OF ADDISON'S LATIN POEMS . 573 The ...
... piece was laid ; Nor yet the painter had his art displayed , 1 Resurrectio delineata ad altare Coll . Magd . Oxon . Vol . i . p . 243 . With slower hand , and pencil more divine , He TRANSLATIONS OF ADDISON'S LATIN POEMS . 573 The ...
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Seite 566 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Seite 699 - 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 718 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 699 - 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 686 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Seite 706 - Look yonder, that hale, well-looking puppy ! You ungrateful scoundrel, did not I pity you, take you out of a great man's service, and show you the pleasure of receiving wages ? Did not I give you ten, then fifteen, now twenty shillings a week, to be sorrowful ? and the more I give you, I think, the gladder you are.
Seite 715 - When it was first acted, the numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other, while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Seite 699 - Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Seite 737 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten 'years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. (a) The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.