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... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
Strona 186
... Acrostic Land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . " This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... Acrostic Land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . " This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
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... acrostics , which is commonly called a chronogram . This kind of wit appears very often on many modern medals , especially those of Germany , when they represent in the inscription the year in which they were coined . Thus we see on a ...
... acrostics , which is commonly called a chronogram . This kind of wit appears very often on many modern medals , especially those of Germany , when they represent in the inscription the year in which they were coined . Thus we see on a ...
Strona 196
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called ... acrostics and Whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are Whigs or Tories , but because ...
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called ... acrostics and Whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are Whigs or Tories , but because ...
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Strona 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strona 370 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
Strona 340 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Strona 356 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Strona 197 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Strona 356 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Strona 225 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Strona 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Strona 293 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Strona 359 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.