LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... Anne , and King George . It is truly a fcandal , that men should write . with contempt of a piece which they never once faw , as thofe two Poets did , who were igno- rant rant even of the fex , as well as sense FROM MR . DIG BY . 43.
... Anne , and King George . It is truly a fcandal , that men should write . with contempt of a piece which they never once faw , as thofe two Poets did , who were igno- rant rant even of the fex , as well as sense FROM MR . DIG BY . 43.
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... once a week , by folks in the country . Here in town we hum over a piece of fine writing , and we whistle at a fermon . The ftage is the only place we feem alive at ; there indeed we ftare , and roar , and clap hands for K. George , and ...
... once a week , by folks in the country . Here in town we hum over a piece of fine writing , and we whistle at a fermon . The ftage is the only place we feem alive at ; there indeed we ftare , and roar , and clap hands for K. George , and ...
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... ruin , the laft tottering column of all the fabric of friend- ship ; once so large , feemingly so strong , and yet fo fuddenly funk and buried ? I am , & c . LETTER LETTER XI . I Have belief enough in the goodness 60 LETTERS TO AND.
... ruin , the laft tottering column of all the fabric of friend- ship ; once so large , feemingly so strong , and yet fo fuddenly funk and buried ? I am , & c . LETTER LETTER XI . I Have belief enough in the goodness 60 LETTERS TO AND.
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... you if you should not once in your life - time again think of it . And now , Sir , for your Arabian Tales . Ill as I have been , almost ever fince they came to hand , hand , I have read as much of them , FROM DR . ATTERBURY . 93.
... you if you should not once in your life - time again think of it . And now , Sir , for your Arabian Tales . Ill as I have been , almost ever fince they came to hand , hand , I have read as much of them , FROM DR . ATTERBURY . 93.
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... once attempted it in a vaft collection of fan- ciful and extravagant con- jectures , which he called a Demonftration ; mixed up with much reading , which his friends called learning , and loose and flippery and delivered ( by the ...
... once attempted it in a vaft collection of fan- ciful and extravagant con- jectures , which he called a Demonftration ; mixed up with much reading , which his friends called learning , and loose and flippery and delivered ( by the ...
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Seite 270 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 140 - Homer had upon me, to write fifty verses a day, besides learned notes, all which are at a conclusion for this year. Rejoice with me, O my friend ! that my labour is over ; come and make merry with me in much feasting. We will feed among the lilies (by the lilies I mean the ladies). Are not the...
Seite 116 - I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Seite 222 - And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead.* I thank God, her death was as easy, as her life was innocent; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Seite 144 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Seite 138 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Seite 140 - Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way. Write something on the King, or Prince, or Princess.
Seite 146 - ... signs of life were found in either. Attended by their melancholy companions, they were conveyed to the town, and the next day were interred in Stanton-Harcourt church-yard.
Seite 214 - It is so with me, for you are in one thing an evangelical man, that you know not where to lay your head ; and, I think, you have no house.
Seite 122 - Those whose date is the shortest, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.