Letters, by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, Esq. ... and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1773 |
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... Polyxena , and I think it as fine a fubject to move terror Barrister at law , and afterwards lord chief baron of the exchequer , firft in Ireland , and then in En- gland . This gentleman ( among other things ) was author of " an ...
... Polyxena , and I think it as fine a fubject to move terror Barrister at law , and afterwards lord chief baron of the exchequer , firft in Ireland , and then in En- gland . This gentleman ( among other things ) was author of " an ...
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... Polyxena . May not Hecuba acknowledge , that Priam made the guilt of these acts his own , by not re- pairing Menelaus's first injury , and by not de- livering up the murderer of Achilles , though he was his own fon , but protecting him ...
... Polyxena . May not Hecuba acknowledge , that Priam made the guilt of these acts his own , by not re- pairing Menelaus's first injury , and by not de- livering up the murderer of Achilles , though he was his own fon , but protecting him ...
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... Polyxena will be yet a greater object of compaffion than Hecuba , fince you are re- folved not only to allow her good sense , but alfo innocence , and other perfonal vir tues . But as far as is confiftent with these excellent qualities ...
... Polyxena will be yet a greater object of compaffion than Hecuba , fince you are re- folved not only to allow her good sense , but alfo innocence , and other perfonal vir tues . But as far as is confiftent with these excellent qualities ...
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... Polyxena , to alleviate thy mif- “ fortunes . And why , Hecuba , to alle- " viate thy misfortunes ? Has Priam loft " his empire , and fo many fons and daugh- 66 ters , for countenancing the rape of Paris ? " Did he at laft lofe his own ...
... Polyxena , to alleviate thy mif- “ fortunes . And why , Hecuba , to alle- " viate thy misfortunes ? Has Priam loft " his empire , and fo many fons and daugh- 66 ters , for countenancing the rape of Paris ? " Did he at laft lofe his own ...
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... Polyxena , " forced to the bed of Ulyffes , and " treated with perpetual fcorn and infults " by Penelope ? But Ulyffes has promised " that thou shalt be to him instead of a ... Polyxena ? Polyxena ? Is the to fuffer too for the " [ 46 ]
... Polyxena , " forced to the bed of Ulyffes , and " treated with perpetual fcorn and infults " by Penelope ? But Ulyffes has promised " that thou shalt be to him instead of a ... Polyxena ? Polyxena ? Is the to fuffer too for the " [ 46 ]
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Page 68 - Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 210 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 85 - I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee : but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Page 170 - So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Page 85 - And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
Page 83 - I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul...
Page 71 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Page 17 - Sir, (quoth the lawyer,) not to flatter ye, You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim...
Page 107 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Page 73 - Incline thofe heads, that never ach'd or thought. This muft provoke his mirth or his difdain, Cure his complaint, — or make him fick again. I too, like them, the poet's path purfue, And keep great Flaccus ever in my view ; But in a diftant...