History of John Bull. Essays. PoetryJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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Página 83
... hope , that foreigners of so great prudence will freely declare their sentiments in the midst of violent parties , and at so vast a distance from their friends , relations , and country ? The affection I bear our neighbour state , would ...
... hope , that foreigners of so great prudence will freely declare their sentiments in the midst of violent parties , and at so vast a distance from their friends , relations , and country ? The affection I bear our neighbour state , would ...
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... hope a proper authority may be made use of to bring him to condign punishment . In the mean while I doubt not , if the persons most concerned would but order Mr. Bernard Lintot , the printer and publisher of this dangerous piece , to be ...
... hope a proper authority may be made use of to bring him to condign punishment . In the mean while I doubt not , if the persons most concerned would but order Mr. Bernard Lintot , the printer and publisher of this dangerous piece , to be ...
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... hope , when your lordship has better considered on it , you will comply with the desire of Your loving friends , JOHN BULL , NIC . FROG . Some of Bull's friends advised him to take gentler methods with the young lord ; but John ...
... hope , when your lordship has better considered on it , you will comply with the desire of Your loving friends , JOHN BULL , NIC . FROG . Some of Bull's friends advised him to take gentler methods with the young lord ; but John ...
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... hope in God , wife , he did not reflect upon you ? " No , thank God , my reputa- " tion is too well established in the world to receive hurt from such a foul - mouthed scoundrel as he ; " his doctrine tends only to make husbands tyrants ...
... hope in God , wife , he did not reflect upon you ? " No , thank God , my reputa- " tion is too well established in the world to receive hurt from such a foul - mouthed scoundrel as he ; " his doctrine tends only to make husbands tyrants ...
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... hope to be saved , I would do any thing to serve you ; I would crawl upon all four to serve you ; I have spent my health and paternal estate in your service . I have indeed a small pittance left , with which I might retire , and with as ...
... hope to be saved , I would do any thing to serve you ; I would crawl upon all four to serve you ; I have spent my health and paternal estate in your service . I have indeed a small pittance left , with which I might retire , and with as ...
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Página 419 - 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...
Página 419 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 115 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Página 111 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Página 471 - Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Página 106 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Página 418 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 113 - Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ) "Boast not my fall
Página 461 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 418 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...