History, Opinions, and Lucubrations, of Isaac Bickerstaff, EsqLongman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861 - 304 páginas |
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... most sacred social institutions considered a subject of polite raillery . Gambling and duelling were the pursuits of those styling themselves pre- eminently men of honour . Amusements of the most brutal INTRODUCTION . iii.
... most sacred social institutions considered a subject of polite raillery . Gambling and duelling were the pursuits of those styling themselves pre- eminently men of honour . Amusements of the most brutal INTRODUCTION . iii.
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... themselves mostly to poetry . This is the most numerous branch of our family , and the pooreft . The Quarterstaffs are most of them prize - fighters or deer - stealers : there have been fo many of them hanged lately , that there are ...
... themselves mostly to poetry . This is the most numerous branch of our family , and the pooreft . The Quarterstaffs are most of them prize - fighters or deer - stealers : there have been fo many of them hanged lately , that there are ...
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... themselves an inclination to be very talk- ative and impertinent , " that they should not speak to please themselves , but those that hear them . " It has been obferved by witty effay writers , that the deepest waters are always the ...
... themselves an inclination to be very talk- ative and impertinent , " that they should not speak to please themselves , but those that hear them . " It has been obferved by witty effay writers , that the deepest waters are always the ...
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... themselves from the rest of the world at certain seasons , to commemorate in their own thoughts fuch of their acquaintance who have gone before them out of this life . And , indeed , when we are advanced in years , there is not a more ...
... themselves from the rest of the world at certain seasons , to commemorate in their own thoughts fuch of their acquaintance who have gone before them out of this life . And , indeed , when we are advanced in years , there is not a more ...
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... themselves more immediately to me in this office of forrow . Untimely or unhappy deaths are what we are most apt to lament : fo little are we able to make it indifferent when a thing happens , though we know it must happen . Thus we ...
... themselves more immediately to me in this office of forrow . Untimely or unhappy deaths are what we are most apt to lament : fo little are we able to make it indifferent when a thing happens , though we know it must happen . Thus we ...
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Página 296 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Página 289 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
Página 298 - It is impossible for this ingenious sort of men to subsist after a peace : every one remembers the shifts they were driven to in the reign of king Charles the Second, when they could not furnish out a single paper of news, without lighting up a comet in Germany, or a fire in Moscow.
Página 23 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Página 296 - Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease 'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; And proud his Mistress' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Página 288 - And each true Briton is to Ben so civil, He swears the Muses met him at the Devil. Tho' justly Greece her eldest sons admires, Why should not we be wiser than our sires?
Página 23 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa...
Página 24 - ... was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is that...
Página 15 - Jeoffery, no longer ago than last night, upon a dispute what day of the month it was then in Holland, pulled his pipe out of his mouth, and cried, 'What does the scholar say to it?
Página 84 - ... therefore he also retired. I was extremely troubled to see the glorious mart of London left with no other guardian but him of credit. But Pacolet told me, ' that traders had nothing to do with the honour or conscience of their...