The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Band 1Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1799 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... several minutes almost choaked with fomething that appeared too big for utterance . At length , he fighed out , with dreadful figns of horror and agony , " The war , the war ! " The Bishop hereupon began to adminifter confola- tion ...
... several minutes almost choaked with fomething that appeared too big for utterance . At length , he fighed out , with dreadful figns of horror and agony , " The war , the war ! " The Bishop hereupon began to adminifter confola- tion ...
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... several refpectable individuals , who were witneffes to the like appearances , in Downing - street , last night and the night preceding . What we have collected , by a diligent inquiry , is , that the apparition has paid feveral vifits ...
... several refpectable individuals , who were witneffes to the like appearances , in Downing - street , last night and the night preceding . What we have collected , by a diligent inquiry , is , that the apparition has paid feveral vifits ...
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... Several of the crew were heard to mutter , in confequence of this proceeding ; upon which the Cap- tain , by advice of the pilot , put them in irons .--- But the moft curious incident was ( if we may believe Quintilian ) , that Horace ...
... Several of the crew were heard to mutter , in confequence of this proceeding ; upon which the Cap- tain , by advice of the pilot , put them in irons .--- But the moft curious incident was ( if we may believe Quintilian ) , that Horace ...
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... several other prefents was very diffa- tisfactory to the Chinese ; but it was chiefly the cabinet d'aijance that made them turn up their noses at our com- mercial offers . The failure of fo grand an enterprize , from a cause of fuch low ...
... several other prefents was very diffa- tisfactory to the Chinese ; but it was chiefly the cabinet d'aijance that made them turn up their noses at our com- mercial offers . The failure of fo grand an enterprize , from a cause of fuch low ...
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... Several . E. Pray let us have a specimen ? C. Whether the light of Tabor was created or un- created ? whether one be a number ? whether men should cross themselves with two fingers or with three ? whether the creation was finished in ...
... Several . E. Pray let us have a specimen ? C. Whether the light of Tabor was created or un- created ? whether one be a number ? whether men should cross themselves with two fingers or with three ? whether the creation was finished in ...
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Seite 159 - Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State...
Seite 259 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Seite iv - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Seite 104 - Igni corusco nubila dividens Plerumque, per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum, Quo bruta tellus et vaga flumina, Quo Styx et invisi horrida Taenari 10 Sedes Atlanteusque finis Concutitur.
Seite 119 - How blest my days, my thoughts how free, In sweet society with thee ! Then all was joyous, all was young, And years unheeded...
Seite 229 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will...
Seite 121 - Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall...
Seite 232 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
Seite 368 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 320 - Oh! hush these suspicions," Fair Imogine said, "Offensive to love and to me! For, if you be living, or if you be dead, I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead Shall husband of Imogine be.