Literary Recollections, Band 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 - 499 Seiten |
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... honoured friend , the present Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells , for his kind communication of some curious letters , written by the justly celebrated Dr. Hartley , Laurence Sterne , Dr. Jortin , and Andrew Bax- ter , the metaphysician ...
... honoured friend , the present Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells , for his kind communication of some curious letters , written by the justly celebrated Dr. Hartley , Laurence Sterne , Dr. Jortin , and Andrew Bax- ter , the metaphysician ...
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... honoured with the name of " beer . " - Not a lad in the school , I believe , ever cast an eye on this most execrable of all puddings , with- out a sensation at his stomach something resem- bling sea - sickness ; and on no occasion did ...
... honoured with the name of " beer . " - Not a lad in the school , I believe , ever cast an eye on this most execrable of all puddings , with- out a sensation at his stomach something resem- bling sea - sickness ; and on no occasion did ...
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... honoured these little schemes of rural enjoyment with his presence . The gen- tleman I allude to was a Mr. Dunkerly , who bore a commission in some militia regiment , and was universally asserted , and as generally be- lieved , to be an ...
... honoured these little schemes of rural enjoyment with his presence . The gen- tleman I allude to was a Mr. Dunkerly , who bore a commission in some militia regiment , and was universally asserted , and as generally be- lieved , to be an ...
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... honour of the alliance . A year elapsed without the parties having met ; and it was generally imagined , that Lethe had kindly administered an oblivious potion to both ; and , with the aid of absence , had obliterated from their minds ...
... honour of the alliance . A year elapsed without the parties having met ; and it was generally imagined , that Lethe had kindly administered an oblivious potion to both ; and , with the aid of absence , had obliterated from their minds ...
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... honour of becoming an unprivileged citizen of the town . 99.66 99 The mayor , I well recollect , was a worthy cordwainer of the name of Mew ; literally , as well as officially , the greatest man within the limits of his own temporary ...
... honour of becoming an unprivileged citizen of the town . 99.66 99 The mayor , I well recollect , was a worthy cordwainer of the name of Mew ; literally , as well as officially , the greatest man within the limits of his own temporary ...
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Seite 62 - Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were. And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before, And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Seite 197 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 248 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Seite 193 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Seite 9 - And portance in my travel's history; 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 370 - O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Seite 326 - ... mother fonder of any of their own children than they were of her. She used often to be at Carlisle to play with her cousins, and her cousins were as often at Scaleby to play with her. She was a pretty little girl; and everybody said she was a very good little girl.
Seite 365 - He was always a well-disposed " young man ; but I think the manners of the country " have given him a more serious turn ; which I was well " pleased with. His chief employment while he was here, " was transcribing a family record, which I drew up some " time ago, of my great grandfather, my grandfather, " and father ; who were all very valuable men ; and I " encouraged him in it, for the sake of William, Bernard, " and Edwin, whom it may hereafter have a tendency to " excite to good and honourable...
Seite 244 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Seite 217 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i