The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Volume 1Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1799 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... please degenerate Whigs , And Minifters get drunk to please the pigs . LXXXVII . E'EN by their own success ' tis fam'd The mighty oft ' are lower'd ; Thus Minifters on power declaim'd , Till fairly over - power'd . LXXXVIII . WINDHAM ...
... please degenerate Whigs , And Minifters get drunk to please the pigs . LXXXVII . E'EN by their own success ' tis fam'd The mighty oft ' are lower'd ; Thus Minifters on power declaim'd , Till fairly over - power'd . LXXXVIII . WINDHAM ...
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... please yourself again ; for I don't care a ftale chaw of tobacco for the foul - weather looks of any fair - weather Jack in the three kingdoms . What I want you to do is , to turn out of your birth at the Admiralty , and make room for ...
... please yourself again ; for I don't care a ftale chaw of tobacco for the foul - weather looks of any fair - weather Jack in the three kingdoms . What I want you to do is , to turn out of your birth at the Admiralty , and make room for ...
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... please . Instead of these , a formal band , In furs and coifs , around me stand ; With founds uncouth , and accents dry , That grate the foul of harmony , Each pedant fage unlocks his store Of mystic , dark , difcordant lore ; And ...
... please . Instead of these , a formal band , In furs and coifs , around me stand ; With founds uncouth , and accents dry , That grate the foul of harmony , Each pedant fage unlocks his store Of mystic , dark , difcordant lore ; And ...
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... please . Gentlemen of the jury , please to attend to this . --So , John Tomkins , you , a hale , hearty man , were going to fetch a midwife . Now , answer me directly - look this way , Sir - what could you poffibly want with a ...
... please . Gentlemen of the jury , please to attend to this . --So , John Tomkins , you , a hale , hearty man , were going to fetch a midwife . Now , answer me directly - look this way , Sir - what could you poffibly want with a ...
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... please ; this is too fe- rious a matter for levity . - What did you do when you went to call upon a friend ? W. He asked me to take a walk ; and , when we were walking , we heard a great noife- B. And where was this ? W. In the street ...
... please ; this is too fe- rious a matter for levity . - What did you do when you went to call upon a friend ? W. He asked me to take a walk ; and , when we were walking , we heard a great noife- B. And where was this ? W. In the street ...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection ..., Volume 12 Stephen Jones,Charles Molloy Westmacott Affichage du livre entier - 1809 |
The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection ..., Volume 15 Stephen Jones,Charles Molloy Westmacott Affichage du livre entier - 1812 |
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Page 161 - Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State...
Page 261 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page iv - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 106 - Igni corusco nubila dividens Plerumque, per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum, Quo bruta tellus et vaga flumina, Quo Styx et invisi horrida Taenari 10 Sedes Atlanteusque finis Concutitur.
Page 121 - How blest my days, my thoughts how free, In sweet society with thee ! Then all was joyous, all was young, And years unheeded...
Page 231 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will...
Page 123 - Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall...
Page 234 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
Page 370 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Page 322 - Oh! hush these suspicions," Fair Imogine said, "Offensive to love and to me! For, if you be living, or if you be dead, I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead Shall husband of Imogine be.