Miscellanies...J.R. Osgood & Company, 1873 - 592페이지 |
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... admirable prudence , fidelity , and success . But for Sir Robert Walpole , we should have had the Pretender back again . But for his obstinate love of peace , we should have had wars , which the nation was not strong enough nor united ...
... admirable prudence , fidelity , and success . But for Sir Robert Walpole , we should have had the Pretender back again . But for his obstinate love of peace , we should have had wars , which the nation was not strong enough nor united ...
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... admirable . Had a man come from such a country as Brobdingnag he would have blundered So. But the best stroke of humor , if there be a best in that abounding book , is that where Gulliver , in the unpronounceable country , describes his ...
... admirable . Had a man come from such a country as Brobdingnag he would have blundered So. But the best stroke of humor , if there be a best in that abounding book , is that where Gulliver , in the unpronounceable country , describes his ...
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... admiration of him , that when - " Instead of endeavoring to raise a vain monument to myself , let me leave behind me a memorial of my friendship with one of the most valuable men as well as finest writers of my age and country- one who ...
... admiration of him , that when - " Instead of endeavoring to raise a vain monument to myself , let me leave behind me a memorial of my friendship with one of the most valuable men as well as finest writers of my age and country- one who ...
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... admirably wiser , wittier , calmer , and more in- structed than almost every man with whom he met , how could Addison suffer , desire , admire , feel much ? I may expect a child to admire me for being taller or writing more cleverly ...
... admirably wiser , wittier , calmer , and more in- structed than almost every man with whom he met , how could Addison suffer , desire , admire , feel much ? I may expect a child to admire me for being taller or writing more cleverly ...
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... admirable stroke of humor , -one which Sydney Smith has used as an illustration of the fac- ulty in his Lectures . look , -place him near the corpse : that wainscot - face must be o ' top of the stairs ; that fellow's almost in a fright ...
... admirable stroke of humor , -one which Sydney Smith has used as an illustration of the fac- ulty in his Lectures . look , -place him near the corpse : that wainscot - face must be o ' top of the stairs ; that fellow's almost in a fright ...
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Addison admirable amusing Athenæum Club beautiful Belle Poule Bonnington called Captain charming Cornhill Magazine court dance dear delightful dinner Duke England English eyes famous fancy father fellow French genius gentle gentleman George George Cruikshank George III give hand Hanover happy head heart heaven honest honor humor hundred John Joseph Addison Kicklebury kind King lady LADY K laugh letters lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Löwe madam married Médoc MILLIKEN Minna Miss morning mother never night noble ogres paper passed picture play poet poor Pope pretty Prince Princess Queen remember round royal smile speak story Struldbrugs suppose sure sweet Swift talk Tatler tell thing thought tion Tom Jones TOUCHIT walk whilst whist wife wine woman women wonder word write young
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48 페이지 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
149 페이지 - 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...
82 페이지 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
194 페이지 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
111 페이지 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
149 페이지 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like 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? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
84 페이지 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
142 페이지 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
109 페이지 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
188 페이지 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.