History of John Bull. Essays. PoetryJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... Person of Quality Ballad on Nelly .. Ode on the Longitude • Epigram on Handel and Eononcini On Mrs. Tofts Two or Three , or a Receipt to make a Cuckold Epigram in a Maid of Honour's Prayer Book The Balance of Europe . A panegyrical ...
... Person of Quality Ballad on Nelly .. Ode on the Longitude • Epigram on Handel and Eononcini On Mrs. Tofts Two or Three , or a Receipt to make a Cuckold Epigram in a Maid of Honour's Prayer Book The Balance of Europe . A panegyrical ...
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... person so publick - spirited , as to per- form the like for the modern . Although it is uni- versally known , that our every way industrious mo- derns , both in the weight of their writings , and in the velocity of their judgments , do ...
... person so publick - spirited , as to per- form the like for the modern . Although it is uni- versally known , that our every way industrious mo- derns , both in the weight of their writings , and in the velocity of their judgments , do ...
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... person is said to con- ceive : now , such as conceive , must bring forth . I have known a man thoughtful , melancholy , and raving for divers days , who forthwith grew wonder- fully easy , lightsome , and cheerful , upon a discharge of ...
... person is said to con- ceive : now , such as conceive , must bring forth . I have known a man thoughtful , melancholy , and raving for divers days , who forthwith grew wonder- fully easy , lightsome , and cheerful , upon a discharge of ...
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... persons ; as a lawyer , is called split - cause , a tailor , prick - louse , & c . Or of things belonging to a man , for the man himself ; as a sword - man , a gown - man , a t - m - t - d - man ; a white- staff , a turn - key , & c ...
... persons ; as a lawyer , is called split - cause , a tailor , prick - louse , & c . Or of things belonging to a man , for the man himself ; as a sword - man , a gown - man , a t - m - t - d - man ; a white- staff , a turn - key , & c ...
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... person will my people head ; --- For the divine deliverer Will on his march in majesty appear , And needs the aid of no confed'rate pow'r * . Under the Article of the confounding we rank , 1. The MIXTURE OF FIGURES , which raises so ...
... person will my people head ; --- For the divine deliverer Will on his march in majesty appear , And needs the aid of no confed'rate pow'r * . Under the Article of the confounding we rank , 1. The MIXTURE OF FIGURES , which raises so ...
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barrier treaty bathos better Bull's CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called catoptrical CHAP church common COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON court criticks Curll DIEGO Double Falshood duke Ecclesdown EDMUND CURLL esquire South ev'ry eyes Fleet street genius gentleman give GoG and MAGOG hand hanged hath head heart Hocus honest honour horses husband Jack Jack swing John Bull John Dennis John's king ladies lawsuit lawyers Lewis Baboon Lintot live look lord Strutt mankind manner matter nature neighbours never Nicholas Frog occasion old Lewis party person plain poem poet poor Pope profund pseudology publick Quadrille rogue satire servants sir Roger spirit stockjobbers talk tell Thalestris thee thing thou thought tion told tradesmen treaty true truth turned whig whole wife woman words XVII
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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...