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... , which may be reckoned among the blemishes , or rather the falfe beauties of our English Tragedy : I mean those particular speeches which are commonly known ! : t i M known by the name of 230 THE SPECTATOR . N ° 40 .
... , which may be reckoned among the blemishes , or rather the falfe beauties of our English Tragedy : I mean those particular speeches which are commonly known ! : t i M known by the name of 230 THE SPECTATOR . N ° 40 .
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... Falfe WITS among the ancients , and in this shall give the reader two or three other species of them , that flourished in the same early ages of the world . The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists or Letter - droppers of ...
... Falfe WITS among the ancients , and in this shall give the reader two or three other species of them , that flourished in the same early ages of the world . The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists or Letter - droppers of ...
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... Falfe kind of Wit , has described Bruin bewailing the loss of his bear to a folitary Echo , who is of great use to the poet in several distichs , as she does not only repeat after him , but helps out his verse , and furnishes him with ...
... Falfe kind of Wit , has described Bruin bewailing the loss of his bear to a folitary Echo , who is of great use to the poet in several distichs , as she does not only repeat after him , but helps out his verse , and furnishes him with ...
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... Falfe WIT that vanished in the refined ages of the world , discovered themselves again in the times of monkish igno- rance . As the monks were the masters of all that little learning which was then extant , and had their whole lives ...
... Falfe WIT that vanished in the refined ages of the world , discovered themselves again in the times of monkish igno- rance . As the monks were the masters of all that little learning which was then extant , and had their whole lives ...
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... Falfe WIT , but enriched the world with inven- tions of their own . It was to this age that we owe the production of Anagrams , which is no- thing else but a tranfmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of ...
... Falfe WIT , but enriched the world with inven- tions of their own . It was to this age that we owe the production of Anagrams , which is no- thing else but a tranfmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of ...
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Page 152 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 45 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 74 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Page 149 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 232 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 412 - Scotland can witness be, I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came, Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase. "Now God be with him...
Page 61 - I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes, as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex. In the...
Page 151 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.
Page 273 - The truth of it is, a man is not qualified for a butt, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity, even in the ridiculous side of his character. A stupid butt is only fit for the conversation of...
Page 5 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.