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fought , had fhe not , with great spirit and courage , ventured all night up the Garonne to fee me , which the above all things defired to do before fhe died . By that means fhe was brought where I was , between feven and eight in the ...
fought , had fhe not , with great spirit and courage , ventured all night up the Garonne to fee me , which the above all things defired to do before fhe died . By that means fhe was brought where I was , between feven and eight in the ...
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... spirit fitter to bear your own misfortunes , than I have to think of them . Is there patience left to reflect by what qualities wealth and greatnefs are got , and by what qualities they are loft ? I have read my friend Congreve's verfes ...
... spirit fitter to bear your own misfortunes , than I have to think of them . Is there patience left to reflect by what qualities wealth and greatnefs are got , and by what qualities they are loft ? I have read my friend Congreve's verfes ...
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... Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath , blushed as he gave it in - and the re- cording angel as he wrote it down , dropp'd a tear upon the word , and blot- ted it out for ever . - My uncle Toby went to his bu- reau ...
... Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath , blushed as he gave it in - and the re- cording angel as he wrote it down , dropp'd a tear upon the word , and blot- ted it out for ever . - My uncle Toby went to his bu- reau ...
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... spirit of wine ! if thou haft no name to be known by , let us call thee Devil . Iago . What was he that you follow'd with your word ? what had he done to you ? Caf . I know not . lago . Is't poffible ? Caf . I remember a mafs of things ...
... spirit of wine ! if thou haft no name to be known by , let us call thee Devil . Iago . What was he that you follow'd with your word ? what had he done to you ? Caf . I know not . lago . Is't poffible ? Caf . I remember a mafs of things ...
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... spirits in this our island . The Advancement of the Bathos . Thus have I ( my dear countrymen ) with incredible pains and diligence , difcovered the hidden fources of the Bathos , or , as I may fay , broke open X x the the abyffes of ...
... spirits in this our island . The Advancement of the Bathos . Thus have I ( my dear countrymen ) with incredible pains and diligence , difcovered the hidden fources of the Bathos , or , as I may fay , broke open X x the the abyffes of ...
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Seite 729 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Seite 657 - The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin...
Seite 505 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Seite 514 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Seite 883 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Seite 778 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Seite 725 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 831 - I shall say but little at present of their Learning, which for many Ages hath flourished in all its Branches among them : But their manner of Writing is very peculiar, being neither from the Left to the Right, like the Europeans ; nor from the Right to the Left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese , nor from down to up, like the Cascagians ; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Seite 870 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Seite 585 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.