ConnoisseurT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... sure always for the worse . On all these occasions , I never failed to condemn the ar- rogance and folly of the compilers of these miscel- lanies ; wondering how they could so grossly mis- take their own interest , and neglect the ...
... sure always for the worse . On all these occasions , I never failed to condemn the ar- rogance and folly of the compilers of these miscel- lanies ; wondering how they could so grossly mis- take their own interest , and neglect the ...
Strona 32
... sure never wrote a line in his life . This threw me into such a violent rage against the whole sex , that I immediately burnt every syllable I had written in her praise , and in bit- terness of soul translated the sixth satire of ...
... sure never wrote a line in his life . This threw me into such a violent rage against the whole sex , that I immediately burnt every syllable I had written in her praise , and in bit- terness of soul translated the sixth satire of ...
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... sure to get drunk with the vicar in defence of religion . As he is in the commission , he ordered a poor Jew pedlar , who came to hawk goods at his house , to Bridewell ; and he was once going to send a little parish - boy to the 68 N ...
... sure to get drunk with the vicar in defence of religion . As he is in the commission , he ordered a poor Jew pedlar , who came to hawk goods at his house , to Bridewell ; and he was once going to send a little parish - boy to the 68 N ...
Strona 72
... sure to be accompanied with a titter ; and upon the entrance of any one with something particular in his person or manner , I have seen a whole room in a buz like a bee - hive . ( This practice of whispering , if it is any 72 N ° 14 ...
... sure to be accompanied with a titter ; and upon the entrance of any one with something particular in his person or manner , I have seen a whole room in a buz like a bee - hive . ( This practice of whispering , if it is any 72 N ° 14 ...
Strona 79
... sure to win all their marbles at taw , and would often strip them of their whole week's allowance at chuck . He was afterward at the head of every match of football or cricket ; and when he was cap- tain , he took in all the big boys by ...
... sure to win all their marbles at taw , and would often strip them of their whole week's allowance at chuck . He was afterward at the head of every match of football or cricket ; and when he was cap- tain , he took in all the big boys by ...
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Strona 11 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?
Strona 52 - Roman wont — first on foot, then, as their age permits, on horseback, to all the art of cavalry, that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership in all the skill of embattling, marching, encamping, fortifying, besieging, and battering, with all the helps of ancient and modern stratagems, tactics, and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country.
Strona 55 - ... may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country. They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them, for want of just and wise discipline, to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
Strona xiii - In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds. Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds '." . I mentioned the periodical paper called
Strona 83 - No, (quoth the Jew with Hearing lookes) Sir, aske what you will have. No penny for the loane of it For one year you shall pay ; You may doe me as good a turne, Before my dying day. But we will have a merry jeast, For to be talked long : You shall make me a bond...
Strona 142 - As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Strona 7 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Strona 48 - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter ; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.
Strona 3 - And here my publisher would not forgive me, was I to leave the neighbourhood without taking notice of the chapter coffee-house, which is frequented by those encouragers of literature, and, as they are styled by an eminent critic, ' not the worst judges of merit, the booksellers.
Strona 109 - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom...