Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . " The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; Or let it cost five hundred pound , No matter where the money's found , It is but fo much more in debt , And that ...
... use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . " The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; Or let it cost five hundred pound , No matter where the money's found , It is but fo much more in debt , And that ...
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... use this Monarch " at his first arrival in his dominions , to manacle " and fhackle him hand and foot ? Is this what ec you call to be free - born ? If you have no regard " to his natural Liberty , at least have some to his " natural ...
... use this Monarch " at his first arrival in his dominions , to manacle " and fhackle him hand and foot ? Is this what ec you call to be free - born ? If you have no regard " to his natural Liberty , at least have some to his " natural ...
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... use this Monarch " at his first arrival in his dominions , to manacle " and fhackle him hand and foot ? Is this what ❝ not my ec you call to be free - born ? If you have no regard " to his natural Liberty , at least have some to his ...
... use this Monarch " at his first arrival in his dominions , to manacle " and fhackle him hand and foot ? Is this what ❝ not my ec you call to be free - born ? If you have no regard " to his natural Liberty , at least have some to his ...
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... use of fome few modern Play - things ; fuch as might prove of any benefit to his mind , by inftilling an early notion of the sciences . For ex- ample , he found that Marbles taught him Percuf- fion and the Laws of Motion ; Nut ...
... use of fome few modern Play - things ; fuch as might prove of any benefit to his mind , by inftilling an early notion of the sciences . For ex- ample , he found that Marbles taught him Percuf- fion and the Laws of Motion ; Nut ...
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... brings into my mind a Project to banish Metaphyficks out of Spain , which it was supposed might be effectuated by this method : That no- body should use any Compound or Decompound of the Subftantial MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 157.
... brings into my mind a Project to banish Metaphyficks out of Spain , which it was supposed might be effectuated by this method : That no- body should use any Compound or Decompound of the Subftantial MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 157.
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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.