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... imagined to be darting amid new creations , as the tail of each hypothesis blazed with idle fancies3 . Such extraordinary natures cannot be looked on with calm ad- miration , nor common hostility ; all is the tumult of wonder about such ...
... imagined to be darting amid new creations , as the tail of each hypothesis blazed with idle fancies3 . Such extraordinary natures cannot be looked on with calm ad- miration , nor common hostility ; all is the tumult of wonder about such ...
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... imagined might be in raptures with the rant of Lee . There is an unerring principle in the false sublime : it seems to be governed by laws , though they are not ours ; and we know what it will like , that is , we know what it will ...
... imagined might be in raptures with the rant of Lee . There is an unerring principle in the false sublime : it seems to be governed by laws , though they are not ours ; and we know what it will like , that is , we know what it will ...
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... imagined that the spirit of English poetry was on its decline in the age of Pope , and allegorises the state of our poetry in a most ingenious compa- rison . The picture is exquisitely wrought , like an ancient gem : one might imagine ...
... imagined that the spirit of English poetry was on its decline in the age of Pope , and allegorises the state of our poetry in a most ingenious compa- rison . The picture is exquisitely wrought , like an ancient gem : one might imagine ...
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... imagined these would sanction even spurious ones . A man who , for a particular purpose , sought to be imposed on , easily obtained his wish : they translated letters of Voiture to Mademoiselle Rambouillet , and despatched them to the ...
... imagined these would sanction even spurious ones . A man who , for a particular purpose , sought to be imposed on , easily obtained his wish : they translated letters of Voiture to Mademoiselle Rambouillet , and despatched them to the ...
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... imagined to indicate the name of the owner , as well as his place of abode . Worsdale , an indifferent painter , was a man of some humour in personating a character , for he performed " Old Lady Scandal " in one of his own farces . He ...
... imagined to indicate the name of the owner , as well as his place of abode . Worsdale , an indifferent painter , was a man of some humour in personating a character , for he performed " Old Lady Scandal " in one of his own farces . He ...
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Página 9 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 78 - 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 358 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Página 146 - If thou darest to print any lie or libel against Dr. Parker, by the Eternal God I will cut thy throat.
Página 290 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council...
Página 318 - His lieutenant here ye should remain : Reward the just ; be steadfast, true, and plain ; Repress the proud, maintaining aye the right ; Walk always so as ever in His sight, Who guards the godly, plaguing the profane. And so ye shall in princely virtues shine, Resembling right your mighty King divine.
Página 316 - Eight of the best learned in the law to advise him for his cause,' our great lawyer thanked the king, ' but he knew himself to be accounted to have as much skill in the law as any man in England, and therefore needed no such help, nor feared to be judged by the law.
Página 195 - This was the Fell whom it was so difficult to assign a reason for not liking : I don't like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But I don't like thee, Dr.
Página 266 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.
Página 203 - But all which thou hast been And all that youth can be thou'rt yet, So fully still dost thou Enjoy the manhood, and the bloom of wit, And all the natural heat, but not the fever too. So contraries on Etna's top conspire, Here hoary frosts, and by them breaks out fire. A secure peace the faithful neighbours keep, Th' emboldened snow next to the flame does sleep.