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, Band 3author, 1818 |
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... believe , in 1756. He was born in 1700. It is almost unexampled , Milton alone excepted , that he should have written the Habakkuk Alcaics at Eton school in 1717 ; and this Alcaic Ode , equally beautiful , in so advanced a period of his ...
... believe , in 1756. He was born in 1700. It is almost unexampled , Milton alone excepted , that he should have written the Habakkuk Alcaics at Eton school in 1717 ; and this Alcaic Ode , equally beautiful , in so advanced a period of his ...
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... believe that , in my chec- quered life , the Dowager Lady Stafford * , Akenside , and myself , formed an Episode ? Yet such is the fact . It reminds one of Burke's ridicule upon a Colonel Macleod , who said in the House , ' that he had ...
... believe that , in my chec- quered life , the Dowager Lady Stafford * , Akenside , and myself , formed an Episode ? Yet such is the fact . It reminds one of Burke's ridicule upon a Colonel Macleod , who said in the House , ' that he had ...
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... believe , but cannot swear , that I returned . I have a volume of the Gentleman's Magazine which is yours , and which I will return through Austen very soon . It is for 1756 , and is volume XLVI . - Apropòs , I will tell you a curious ...
... believe , but cannot swear , that I returned . I have a volume of the Gentleman's Magazine which is yours , and which I will return through Austen very soon . It is for 1756 , and is volume XLVI . - Apropòs , I will tell you a curious ...
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... Believe me , Sir , I participate sincerely with you in those painful feelings of parental emotion with which you deplore the loss of your lamented Son . - His private virtues and professional merits have endeared him to all who knew him ...
... Believe me , Sir , I participate sincerely with you in those painful feelings of parental emotion with which you deplore the loss of your lamented Son . - His private virtues and professional merits have endeared him to all who knew him ...
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... believe , no allusion to it in Scripture . It never hap- pens in high life ; is the vice of the poor ; and generally in the pale of domestic servitude . I believe that , in every instance of the kind , a total want of religious ...
... believe , no allusion to it in Scripture . It never hap- pens in high life ; is the vice of the poor ; and generally in the pale of domestic servitude . I believe that , in every instance of the kind , a total want of religious ...
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Seite 710 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 672 - And whereas heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in Churches within this realm ; some following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln ; now from henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.
Seite 776 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.
Seite 672 - And where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in churches within this Realm : some following Salisbury Use, some Hereford Use, some the Use of Bangor, some of York, and some of Lincoln : now from henceforth, all the whole realm shall have but one Use.
Seite 458 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 299 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Seite 710 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 774 - You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty and puissant Monarch of all Scotland had not such a sum in his Treasury. The case is altered, I perceive, at present; but whom have you to thank for it ? " Bonny Scot we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman.
Seite 473 - You are also quite right in regard to the state of mind in which the author should put himself when he corrects his verses. I have given in a little poem of mine called ' The Poet ' the same precept which you give me.
Seite 94 - Arms, such Arms being first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office, otherwise this our Licence and Permission to be void and of none effect.