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... mean beginning , happening to have some words with a person who had known him some time , was asked by the other , how he could have the impudence to give himself so many airs , when he knew very well , that he remembered him seven ...
... mean beginning , happening to have some words with a person who had known him some time , was asked by the other , how he could have the impudence to give himself so many airs , when he knew very well , that he remembered him seven ...
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... means , said the crockery merchant , I do not desire to have anything to do with conjuration ; and so set the scholar at liberty , who went directly to his comrades , that by this time were making merry with the money they had sold the ...
... means , said the crockery merchant , I do not desire to have anything to do with conjuration ; and so set the scholar at liberty , who went directly to his comrades , that by this time were making merry with the money they had sold the ...
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... mean to beg of the rest again . 112. Dr. Sewel , and two or three more gentlemen , walking towards Hampstead on a summer's day , were met by the famous Daniel Purcell , who was very importunate with them to know upon what account they ...
... mean to beg of the rest again . 112. Dr. Sewel , and two or three more gentlemen , walking towards Hampstead on a summer's day , were met by the famous Daniel Purcell , who was very importunate with them to know upon what account they ...
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... mean ? But all his spluttering was in vain ; for the host , with a great deal of tavern elocution , made him sensible nothing could be abated . The monsieur , therefore , seeing no remedy but patience , seemed to pay it cheerfully ...
... mean ? But all his spluttering was in vain ; for the host , with a great deal of tavern elocution , made him sensible nothing could be abated . The monsieur , therefore , seeing no remedy but patience , seemed to pay it cheerfully ...
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... mean , Í suppose ? No , sir , said he , they are burned already . 151. In eighty - eight , when Queen Elizabeth went from Temple Bar along Fleet Street on some procession , the lawyers were ranged on one side of the way , and the ...
... mean , Í suppose ? No , sir , said he , they are burned already . 151. In eighty - eight , when Queen Elizabeth went from Temple Bar along Fleet Street on some procession , the lawyers were ranged on one side of the way , and the ...
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Page 220 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 233 - When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes so bright and with that awful air, I thought my heart which durst so high aspire As bold, as his who snatched celestial fire. But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth from her coral lips such folly broke : Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthralled, her tongue unbound.
Page 236 - ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 218 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Page 218 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Page 220 - Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Page 242 - Obey has said, And man by law supreme has made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, And nothing left but state and pride. Fierce as an eastern prince he grows, *•" And all his innate rigour shows: Then but to look, to laugh, or speak, Will the nuptial contract break.
Page 247 - Did MILTON'S PROSE, O CHARLES! thy death defend? A furious foe, unconscious, proves a friend ; On MILTON'S VERSE does BENTLEY comment? know, A weak officious friend becomes a foe. While he would seem his author's fame to further, The MURDEROUS CRITIC has aveng'd THY MURDER.
Page 109 - Agh! my lady; success to your ladyship, and success to your honour's honour, this morning, of all days in the year; for sure didn't I dream last night that her ladyship gave me a pound of tea, and that your honour gave me a pound of tobacco?" "But, my good woman," said the general, "do not you know that dreams always go by the rule of contrary?