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Side 14
... Happy was it for the poor talkers of those days that so great a revolution was brought about by de- grees ; for though I can conceive it easy enough to turn the writers at Constantinople into printers , and believe it possible to make a ...
... Happy was it for the poor talkers of those days that so great a revolution was brought about by de- grees ; for though I can conceive it easy enough to turn the writers at Constantinople into printers , and believe it possible to make a ...
Side 20
... happy as to be master of a candle , I have observed that though it has burned with great brightness to a certain point , yet the mo- ment that the flame has reached that point , it has be- come less and less bright , rising and falling ...
... happy as to be master of a candle , I have observed that though it has burned with great brightness to a certain point , yet the mo- ment that the flame has reached that point , it has be- come less and less bright , rising and falling ...
Side 22
... Happy Virgil ! but O wretched Milton ! more unhappy in the blindness of thy commentators , than in thy own ! who , to thy eternal disgrace , would preserve thy two concluding lines , with the same superstition with which the Gebers ...
... Happy Virgil ! but O wretched Milton ! more unhappy in the blindness of thy commentators , than in thy own ! who , to thy eternal disgrace , would preserve thy two concluding lines , with the same superstition with which the Gebers ...
Side 41
... happy mix- ture of both . From Hyde - park to Shoreditch , scarce a chandler's shop or an oyster - stall but has embel- lishments of this kind ; and I have heard that there is a design against the meeting of the new parlia- ment to fit ...
... happy mix- ture of both . From Hyde - park to Shoreditch , scarce a chandler's shop or an oyster - stall but has embel- lishments of this kind ; and I have heard that there is a design against the meeting of the new parlia- ment to fit ...
Side 71
... happy . But even in this case , how have they acted against experience ! For as a storm of wind is a much more usual phenomenon in this climate than an earthquake , it is evident that the expence of erecting these occasional receptacles ...
... happy . But even in this case , how have they acted against experience ! For as a storm of wind is a much more usual phenomenon in this climate than an earthquake , it is evident that the expence of erecting these occasional receptacles ...
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Side 252 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Side 36 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Side 190 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.
Side 280 - ... gentleman two letters of excuses, which with less wit than the epistles of Voiture, had ten times more natural and easy politeness in the turn of their expression. In the postscript, he appointed a meeting at Tyburn at twelve...
Side 205 - You mistake me (answered my friend); every member of our club has the privilege of bringing one friend along with him, who is by no means thereby...
Side 262 - All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.
Side 103 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Side 176 - ... weaning his heart from the immoderate love of earthly things, and teaching him to revere the gods, and to place his whole trust and happiness in their government and protection.
Side 72 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Side 206 - As I found that my friend would have taken a refusal ill, I told him that for this once I would certainly attend him to the club, but desired him to give me previously the outlines of the characters of the sitting members, that I might know how to behave myself properly. "Your precaution (said he) is a prudent one, and I will make you so well acquainted with them beforehand, that you shall not seem a stranger when among them. You must know then that our club consists of at least forty members when...