Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 pages |
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... live a little upon myself . I would desire in this case , to imitate that fat man , whom I have somewhere heard of in a shipwreck , who , when the sailors , pressed by famine , were taking slices from his posteriors to satis- fy their ...
... live a little upon myself . I would desire in this case , to imitate that fat man , whom I have somewhere heard of in a shipwreck , who , when the sailors , pressed by famine , were taking slices from his posteriors to satis- fy their ...
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... live in London finds nothing more difficult . With regard to myself , none ever tried with more assiduity , or came off with such in- different suceess . I spent a whole season in the search , during which time , my name has been ...
... live in London finds nothing more difficult . With regard to myself , none ever tried with more assiduity , or came off with such in- different suceess . I spent a whole season in the search , during which time , my name has been ...
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... lives : never was so much noise so quickly quelled , as by this short but pathetic oration of our landlord ; drank out was echoed in a tone of discon- tent round the table : drank out already ! that was very odd : that so much punch ...
... lives : never was so much noise so quickly quelled , as by this short but pathetic oration of our landlord ; drank out was echoed in a tone of discon- tent round the table : drank out already ! that was very odd : that so much punch ...
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... live , whether we like a Spa- nish war or not . Believe me , my honest friends , what- ever you may talk of liberty and your own reason , both that liberty and reason are conditionally resigned by every poor man in every society ; and ...
... live , whether we like a Spa- nish war or not . Believe me , my honest friends , what- ever you may talk of liberty and your own reason , both that liberty and reason are conditionally resigned by every poor man in every society ; and ...
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... live with an old man , I would advise you not to like gravy ; I was disinherited myself for liking gravy . Don't laugh much in public ; the spectators that are not as merry as you , will hate you , either because they envy your ...
... live with an old man , I would advise you not to like gravy ; I was disinherited myself for liking gravy . Don't laugh much in public ; the spectators that are not as merry as you , will hate you , either because they envy your ...
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Page 132 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Page 150 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Page 150 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 139 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 131 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 103 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 173 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
Page 234 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
Page 233 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
Page 132 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...