The Anonymous, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810 |
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... Writers , in their attempts to delineate En- glish manners XLVII . ABC's Masquerade . XLVIII . Concluded . XLIX . Imported Bulls L. The Revery ; a Poem LI . The Revery Concluded PAGE 364 374 390 400 412 420 432 LII . Puns and ...
... Writers , in their attempts to delineate En- glish manners XLVII . ABC's Masquerade . XLVIII . Concluded . XLIX . Imported Bulls L. The Revery ; a Poem LI . The Revery Concluded PAGE 364 374 390 400 412 420 432 LII . Puns and ...
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... writer ; a " lawyer , a waiter , a trout - stream , a gentleman , and a goose . He must be the wiser for having inspected the foregoing picture ; though his wisdom , like that of Socrates , may consist in the discernment of his own ...
... writer ; a " lawyer , a waiter , a trout - stream , a gentleman , and a goose . He must be the wiser for having inspected the foregoing picture ; though his wisdom , like that of Socrates , may consist in the discernment of his own ...
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... writer , both actual and ci - devant , will be proud of having the offspring of his Muse not only introduced to the world under the auspices of your reputation , ( and joint shelter of your anonymousness and his own , ) — but secure of ...
... writer , both actual and ci - devant , will be proud of having the offspring of his Muse not only introduced to the world under the auspices of your reputation , ( and joint shelter of your anonymousness and his own , ) — but secure of ...
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... PERIODICAL works , after the lapse of years , become interesting , in a way on which probably the earliest writers of them did not calculate . In re- cording the transient whims and fashions of the day , No. VII . 47 ANONYMOUS .
... PERIODICAL works , after the lapse of years , become interesting , in a way on which probably the earliest writers of them did not calculate . In re- cording the transient whims and fashions of the day , No. VII . 47 ANONYMOUS .
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... writer or as a man . He " hung loose upon society " and literature himself , and soared oftener on the merits of his friends , than on his own . His ingratitude to Swift , I had not forgotten ; and it was with some dissatisfaction I ...
... writer or as a man . He " hung loose upon society " and literature himself , and soared oftener on the merits of his friends , than on his own . His ingratitude to Swift , I had not forgotten ; and it was with some dissatisfaction I ...
Términos y frases comunes
accordingly Addison admit Æneid æra Aghaboe agreeable airy Allspice amongst ancient Anonymous answer appeared assert assured belfries Boeotia bouts-rimés brightness buildings Bull called Cambrensis Castle Rackrent century Cicero claim conjecture consider countenance Cremona critic Divine Doctor Doctor Johnson Don Quixote doubt dream Dublin DUNCIAD equivoque erected essays express fashionable favour fire furnish genius gentleman give glory hand Harley heard honour Horace Walpole Humour informed invention of bells Ireland Irish John Carr lately latter least Ledwich light Lord manner Manorvill Mantua mean ment merits mixed wit Mortimer nameless ness NUMBER Oakley Park observed Ogygia once original OVID paper perhaps person pleasantry present produced pronounce Puns reader recollect resemblance respect round towers scarcely secondly seems short sion Sir Everard Sir Roger Spectator spirit supposed Swift taste ther tion touched true truth ture wand witty words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 61 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 130 - NELSON'S shrine; And vainly pierce the solemn gloom, That shrouds, O PITT, thy hallowed tomb ! Deep graved in every British heart, O never let those names depart ! Say to your sons, — Lo, here his grave, Who victor died on Gadite wave; To him, as to the burning levin, Short, bright, resistless course was given.
Página 64 - The sight of the glory of Jehovah was like Devouring Fire in the eyes of the children of Israel.' And again we read, in D. iv. 24, — ' Jehovah thy God is a Consuming (or Devouring) Fire, a jealous God.' And so says the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, xii. 29, quoting this very language of Deuteronomy, — ' For our God is a Consuming Fire.' And, indeed, the whole passage before us finds...
Página 85 - Begging your honour's pardon (replied Clinker), may not the new light of God's grace shine upon the poor and the ignorant in their humility, as well as upon the wealthy, and the philosopher in all his pride of human learning ? ' ' What you imagine to be the new light of grace (said his master), I take to be a deceitful vapour, glimmering through a crack in your upper story.
Página 179 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 100 - Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell (who knows not Circe, The daughter of the sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Página 47 - L — d! said my mother, what is all this story about? A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard.
Página 66 - who is the light of the world," and has engaged, that those who follow him shall not "walk in darkness, but have the light of life," ordered him in his providence, suitable and effectual relief.
Página 163 - Sermons,' with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
Página 125 - ... or done penance, fuch a limited time, " according to the heinoufnefs of their crimes, " they then were permitted to defcend to the " next floor ; and fo on by degrees, until they " came to the door, which always faced the " entrance of the church, where they ftood to "• receive abfolution from the clergy, and the,