Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... that never dies ! O learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years . = CELLANIES . 1.
... that never dies ! O learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years . = CELLANIES . 1.
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... learned Eafe , Content with Science in the Vale of Peace . Calmly he look'd on either Life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd , Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd , and that ...
... learned Eafe , Content with Science in the Vale of Peace . Calmly he look'd on either Life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd , Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd , and that ...
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... learned Author . Hereupon he took me afide , furvey'd me over with a fixt attention , and opening the clafps of the Parchment cover , fpoke ( to my great furprize ) in English , as follows ; " Courteous ftranger , whoever thou art , I ...
... learned Author . Hereupon he took me afide , furvey'd me over with a fixt attention , and opening the clafps of the Parchment cover , fpoke ( to my great furprize ) in English , as follows ; " Courteous ftranger , whoever thou art , I ...
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... learned Gentleman , by Profeffion an Antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable Cu- riofities , esteemed none more highly , than a Skin of the true Pergamenian Parchment , which hung at the upper - end of his hall . On this was curi ...
... learned Gentleman , by Profeffion an Antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable Cu- riofities , esteemed none more highly , than a Skin of the true Pergamenian Parchment , which hung at the upper - end of his hall . On this was curi ...
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... learned Scriverius became fo enamoured , as to inebriate his friend , and be fa- miliar with his Mistress . I am not ignorant of what Columefius affirms , that the learned Bar- thius was not fo overtaken , but he perceived it ; and in ...
... learned Scriverius became fo enamoured , as to inebriate his friend , and be fa- miliar with his Mistress . I am not ignorant of what Columefius affirms , that the learned Bar- thius was not fo overtaken , but he perceived it ; and in ...
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Página 386 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
Página 286 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Página 322 - However it be, I do not know, I say, why this prejudice, well improved and carried as far as it would go, might not be made to conduce to the preservation of many innocent creatures, which are now exposed to all the wantonness of an ignorant barbarity.
Página 92 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.
Página 352 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Página 388 - Another cause (and no less strong than the former) may be deduced from our author's being a player, and forming himself first upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member.
Página 196 - But all that lies between thefe, as Corn, Flower, Fruits...
Página 396 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Página 378 - ... with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next...
Página 388 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.