Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Third Series, כרך 3Chatto & Windus, 1896 - 361 עמודים |
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עמוד 265 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see.
עמוד 45 - you represent him as having killed one of these birds on entering the South Sea, and that the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime.
עמוד 328 - Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them.
עמוד 84 - To make up one Hermaphrodite ; Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling...
עמוד 264 - Yes, every poet is a fool; By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet.
עמוד 250 - Matthew's palace, in Duke-street, To try for once, if they can dine On bacon-ham, and mutton-chine. If wearied with the great affairs, Which Britain trusts to Harley's cares, Thou, humble statesman, mayst descend, Thy mind one moment to unbend, To see thy servant from his soul Crown with thy health the sprightly bowl...
עמוד 19 - ... of his feelings, delivered in the most affecting tones of voice, and with gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in " Abel Drugger," and had I not seen him in both, I should have thought it as possible for Milton to have written " Hudibras," and Butler " Paradise Lost," as for one man to have played "Hamlet" and "Drugger
עמוד 243 - And the hostler that sung about eight years ago ? And where is your sister, so mild and so dear, Whose voice to her maids like a trumpet was clear...
עמוד 247 - But coronets we owe to crowns, And favour to a court's affection ; By nature we are Adam's sons, And sons of Anstis by election.
עמוד 344 - Rachel herself is gone thither alsO. There now appear among us none but a few ordinary people, who come to church only to say their prayers, so that I have no work worth speaking of but on Sundays. I have placed my son at the Piazzas, to acquaint the ladies that the bell rings for church, and that it stands on the other side of the garden ; but they only laugh at the child.