Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 sider |
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... remained , till my death , where some of them have lain twenty , thirty , forty and even fifty years . But " the Rubicon is passed . " It is too late to regret the course pursued and to whatever reception the volume may receive , I must ...
... remained , till my death , where some of them have lain twenty , thirty , forty and even fifty years . But " the Rubicon is passed . " It is too late to regret the course pursued and to whatever reception the volume may receive , I must ...
Side 22
... remained at the circus . Shortly after this , the guardians of the poor for the city , ex- cept James Wilson , Jacob Tomkins , Jun . and William Sansom , ceased the performance of their duties , nearly the whole of them having removed ...
... remained at the circus . Shortly after this , the guardians of the poor for the city , ex- cept James Wilson , Jacob Tomkins , Jun . and William Sansom , ceased the performance of their duties , nearly the whole of them having removed ...
Side 23
... remained , many shut themselves up in their houses , being afraid to walk the streets . The smoke of tobacco being regarded as a preventive , many persons , even women and small boys , had segars almost constantly in their mouths ...
... remained , many shut themselves up in their houses , being afraid to walk the streets . The smoke of tobacco being regarded as a preventive , many persons , even women and small boys , had segars almost constantly in their mouths ...
Side 31
... remained there till night , when they returned to their families . Custom rob- bed the situation of its terrors . The only interruption to this state of their feelings arose from the death of some friend , or intimate acquaintance , or ...
... remained there till night , when they returned to their families . Custom rob- bed the situation of its terrors . The only interruption to this state of their feelings arose from the death of some friend , or intimate acquaintance , or ...
Side 52
... remained in this place , die in abundance , so fast , that they drag them away , like dead beasts , and put ten , or fifteen , or more , in a hole together . All the stores are shut up . I am afraid this city will be ruined : for nobody ...
... remained in this place , die in abundance , so fast , that they drag them away , like dead beasts , and put ten , or fifteen , or more , in a hole together . All the stores are shut up . I am afraid this city will be ruined : for nobody ...
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Side 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Side 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Side 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Side 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Side 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Side 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Side 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Side 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Side 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.