The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1801 |
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... his fatire indeed is feverely pointed , and in it he appears what lord Rochester says he was , " The best good man with the worst - natured muse . Ye " Yet even here the character may be applied to OF KNOWLEDGE , & c . xxix.
... his fatire indeed is feverely pointed , and in it he appears what lord Rochester says he was , " The best good man with the worst - natured muse . Ye " Yet even here the character may be applied to OF KNOWLEDGE , & c . xxix.
xxxvi 페이지
... say , that which should make him be applauded ; he never laid the bufinefs of the house to heart , being a vain and empty , though a witty man . " Clarendon , to whom he was fa- miliarly known , records , " that he appeared in these ...
... say , that which should make him be applauded ; he never laid the bufinefs of the house to heart , being a vain and empty , though a witty man . " Clarendon , to whom he was fa- miliarly known , records , " that he appeared in these ...
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... say was " raifing money upon poft - obits ; it was a mode of raifing money which nothing but the utmost difficulties could juftify . " If the honourable gentleman would , however , confult the ftatute book , he would fee that this was ...
... say was " raifing money upon poft - obits ; it was a mode of raifing money which nothing but the utmost difficulties could juftify . " If the honourable gentleman would , however , confult the ftatute book , he would fee that this was ...
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... say , that their fitu- ation was now better by 969,000l . than had been predicted by the eftimate of the laft budget ; and , as peace was restored in that quarter , he had no doubt but India would experience a long and increasing ...
... say , that their fitu- ation was now better by 969,000l . than had been predicted by the eftimate of the laft budget ; and , as peace was restored in that quarter , he had no doubt but India would experience a long and increasing ...
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... say that the period was come to put an end to it : they only knew a part of the tranfaction ; minifters might be ac- quainted with reafons unknown to them to justify their violent an- fwers to the overtures ; this was a fubject unfit ...
... say that the period was come to put an end to it : they only knew a part of the tranfaction ; minifters might be ac- quainted with reafons unknown to them to justify their violent an- fwers to the overtures ; this was a fubject unfit ...
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xii 페이지 - Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
215 페이지 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
39 페이지 - I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears - a poor Negrodriver - or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits! I can truly say...
xix 페이지 - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.
xiii 페이지 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
xiii 페이지 - Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
207 페이지 - Hark ! where the sweeping scythe now rips along : Each sturdy mower emulous and strong ; Whose writhing form meridian heat defies, Bends o'er his work, and every sinew tries ; Prostrates the waving treasure at his feet, But spares the rising clover, short and sweet. Come, Health ! come, Jollity ! light-footed, come ; Here hold your revels, and make this your home. Each heart awaits and hails you as its own ; Each moisten'd brow, that scorns to wear a frown : Th...
37 페이지 - I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents, flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings...
xxxvi 페이지 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz.
xiv 페이지 - When their reputation was high, they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind.