History of John Bull. Essays. PoetryJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... speaking like a philosopher ; and a fine gentleman like a scholar . Whoever is con- versant in modern plays , may make a most noble col- lection of this kind , and at the same time form a complete body of modern ethics and morality ...
... speaking like a philosopher ; and a fine gentleman like a scholar . Whoever is con- versant in modern plays , may make a most noble col- lection of this kind , and at the same time form a complete body of modern ethics and morality ...
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Jonathan Swift. However , our next instance is certainly an original . Speaking of a beautiful infant , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be A child , as poets say , sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did ...
Jonathan Swift. However , our next instance is certainly an original . Speaking of a beautiful infant , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be A child , as poets say , sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did ...
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... speak of the passions : but as the main end and principal effect of the bathos is to produce tranquillity of mind ( and sure it is a better design to promote sleep than madness ) we have little to say on this sub- ject . Nor will the ...
... speak of the passions : but as the main end and principal effect of the bathos is to produce tranquillity of mind ( and sure it is a better design to promote sleep than madness ) we have little to say on this sub- ject . Nor will the ...
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... speak of the thunder of Heaven , say , The lords above are angry and talk big * . Or if you would describe a rich man refunding his treasures , express it thus , Tho ' he ( as said ) may riches gorge , the spoil Painful in massy vomit ...
... speak of the thunder of Heaven , say , The lords above are angry and talk big * . Or if you would describe a rich man refunding his treasures , express it thus , Tho ' he ( as said ) may riches gorge , the spoil Painful in massy vomit ...
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... speak of them as of things known , that they were then a part of the study of the learned . And though all we directly hear is of their military achieve- ments , in the brave defence of their country from the annual invasions of a ...
... speak of them as of things known , that they were then a part of the study of the learned . And though all we directly hear is of their military achieve- ments , in the brave defence of their country from the annual invasions of a ...
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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...