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... less delight , the many little artifices made use of to allure adventurers , as well as the visible alteration in the looks of the sellers , accord- ing as the demand for tickets gave occasion to raise or lower their price . So deeply ...
... less delight , the many little artifices made use of to allure adventurers , as well as the visible alteration in the looks of the sellers , accord- ing as the demand for tickets gave occasion to raise or lower their price . So deeply ...
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... less accurate observers . A few nights ago I saw one of these gentlemen take up a sermon , and after seeming to peruse it for some time with great atten- tion , he declared , " it was very good English . " The reader will judge whether ...
... less accurate observers . A few nights ago I saw one of these gentlemen take up a sermon , and after seeming to peruse it for some time with great atten- tion , he declared , " it was very good English . " The reader will judge whether ...
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... less extensive perhaps , and more agreeable to the modern taste , than that of Virtu . SIR , TO MR . TOWN . I SUPPOSE Connoisseur is only another word for a Knowing - One . So write me a few papers in defence of cards , dice , races ...
... less extensive perhaps , and more agreeable to the modern taste , than that of Virtu . SIR , TO MR . TOWN . I SUPPOSE Connoisseur is only another word for a Knowing - One . So write me a few papers in defence of cards , dice , races ...
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But , as a relief from the fatigue of so many rest- less hours , we have frequently gone to sleep for the benefit of the public and surely we , whose labours are confined to a sheet and a half , may be indulged in taking a nap now and ...
But , as a relief from the fatigue of so many rest- less hours , we have frequently gone to sleep for the benefit of the public and surely we , whose labours are confined to a sheet and a half , may be indulged in taking a nap now and ...
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... then set out on his progress through the principal market- towns , where he will exhibit publickly , without loss of time , any hour of the day or night . He will per- form to no less than two persons , and will 46 THE CONNOISSEUR .
... then set out on his progress through the principal market- towns , where he will exhibit publickly , without loss of time , any hour of the day or night . He will per- form to no less than two persons , and will 46 THE CONNOISSEUR .
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Página 170 - As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Página 83 - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
Página 31 - Chapter coffee-house, which is frequented by those encouragers of literature, and (as they are styled by an eminent critic) 'not the worst judges of merit, the booksellers.' The conversation here naturally turns upon the newest publications; but their criticisms are somewhat singular. When they say a good book, they do not mean to praise the style or sentiment, but the quick and extensive sale of it.
Página 76 - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.
Página 164 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Página 113 - To spoyle the bloud of innocent. By forfeit of his bond. And as he was about to strike In him the deadly blow : ' Stay ' (quoth the judge) ' thy crueltie ; I charge thee to do so.
Página 34 - Larem proprium vescor vernasque procaces pasco libatis dapibus. prout cuique libido est siccat inaequalis calices conviva, solutus legibus insanis, seu quis capit acria fortis pocula seu modicis uvescit laetius. ergo 70 sermo oritur, non de villis domibusve alienis, nee male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Página 109 - I'll lay you a thousand crowns against a pound of your flesh that it is true.
Página 110 - Nor ever yet did any good To them in streets that lie. His life was like a barrow hogge, That liveth many a day, Yet never once doth any good, Until men will him slay. Or like a filthy heap of dung, That lyeth in a whoard ; Which never can do any good, Till it be spread abroad. So fares it with the usurer, He cannot sleep in rest, For feare the thiefe will him pursue To plucke him from his nest.