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, Tom 8Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1805 |
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... replied with the most frightful contor- tions and ridiculous grimaces ; By Heaven , methinks it were an easy leap , To pluck bright Honour from the pale - fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom line could never ...
... replied with the most frightful contor- tions and ridiculous grimaces ; By Heaven , methinks it were an easy leap , To pluck bright Honour from the pale - fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom line could never ...
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... replied one , in mechanics more knowing ; " ' Tis by weights made of lead , fome machines are kept going ; And the state of that crazy Machine plainly fhews That its weights are as leaden as need be , God knows ! But to prove the ...
... replied one , in mechanics more knowing ; " ' Tis by weights made of lead , fome machines are kept going ; And the state of that crazy Machine plainly fhews That its weights are as leaden as need be , God knows ! But to prove the ...
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... replied- " As I now know my cue , I will give both the Doctor and Devil his due ; Leave the praife of the one - whom all the world knows , ' To fight Oppofition - and write down our foes , And " ( bowing , and pouching the half - a ...
... replied- " As I now know my cue , I will give both the Doctor and Devil his due ; Leave the praife of the one - whom all the world knows , ' To fight Oppofition - and write down our foes , And " ( bowing , and pouching the half - a ...
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... replied Vulcan ; " but Capt.- is an Irishman , and I have already married him five times , fo I confider him as a good cuftomer ; but per- haps I may never fee your face again . A JACK Tar , having been long in a French prifon , was ...
... replied Vulcan ; " but Capt.- is an Irishman , and I have already married him five times , fo I confider him as a good cuftomer ; but per- haps I may never fee your face again . A JACK Tar , having been long in a French prifon , was ...
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... replied his Lordship , " it may be fo ; for your Grace's eye - fight is much better than mine ! " SARAH , Dutchefs of Marlborough , once preffing the Duke to take a medicine , with her ufual warmth faid , " I'll be hanged if it do not ...
... replied his Lordship , " it may be fo ; for your Grace's eye - fight is much better than mine ! " SARAH , Dutchefs of Marlborough , once preffing the Duke to take a medicine , with her ufual warmth faid , " I'll be hanged if it do not ...
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Strona 2 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Strona 206 - Another came running presently, And he was as pale as pale could be, Fly ! my lord bishop, fly ! quoth he, Ten thousand rats are coming this way — The Lord forgive you for yesterday ! I'll go to my tower in the Rhine, replied he, 'Tis the safest place in Germany, The walls are high, and the shores are steep, And the tide is strong, and the water deep.
Strona 206 - In the morning, as he enter'd the hall Where his picture hung against the wall, A sweat like death all over him came, For the rats had eaten it out of the frame. As he...
Strona 4 - Seldom he fmiles ; and fmiles in fuch a fort, As if he mock'd himfelf, and fcorn'd his fpirit That could be mov'd to fmile at any thing.
Strona 186 - Though great from courts of law the distance. To reach the court of truth and justice (Where, I confess, my only trust is), Though here below the learned...
Strona 143 - What are our Poets, take them as they fall — Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all ? Them and their works in the same class you'll find ; They are the mere Waste-Paper of mankind.
Strona 160 - Like the man, who contriving a hole in his wall, To admit his two cats — the one large t'other small— When a great hole was cut for the first logo through, Would a little one have for the little cat too.
Strona 90 - Our females have been used at night to walk. Sometimes, indeed, so various is our art, An actor may improve and mend his part; 'Give me a horse...
Strona 89 - From distant climes, o'er widespread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum, True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good: No private views disgraced our generous zeal; What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation.
Strona 174 - ORLANDO cheers desponding age, Or the sweet wiles of ROSALIND engage, We own that manly graces finely blend The tender lover and the soothing friend. Though Nature was so prodigally kind In the bold lineaments of form and mind, As if to check a fond excess of pride, The pow'rs of voice she scantily supplied: Oft...