The life of Dr. Parnell. The life of Henry Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. [Miscellaneous prefaces]. The Bee. EssaysF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... King , to the vicarage of Finglass , a benefice worth about four hundred pounds a year , in the diocese of Dublin ... King's Bench in Ireland . Such is the very unpoetical detail of the life of a poet . Some dates , and some few facts ...
... King , to the vicarage of Finglass , a benefice worth about four hundred pounds a year , in the diocese of Dublin ... King's Bench in Ireland . Such is the very unpoetical detail of the life of a poet . Some dates , and some few facts ...
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... king and all his retinue in the most splendid manner . lady was possessed of a fortune exceeding forty thou- sand pounds , and was not deficient in mental accom- plishments ; but whether he was not yet fully satiated with his former ...
... king and all his retinue in the most splendid manner . lady was possessed of a fortune exceeding forty thou- sand pounds , and was not deficient in mental accom- plishments ; but whether he was not yet fully satiated with his former ...
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... King William the tories , who from every motive were opposed to the court , had been gaining popularity , and now began to make a public stand against their competitors . Robert Har- ley , afterwards Earl of Oxford , a staunch and con ...
... King William the tories , who from every motive were opposed to the court , had been gaining popularity , and now began to make a public stand against their competitors . Robert Har- ley , afterwards Earl of Oxford , a staunch and con ...
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... King Charles I. , the other for their attachment to the Par- liament that opposed him . It was afterwards his boast that he steered clear of the extremes for which his ancestors had been distinguished , having kept the spirit of the one ...
... King Charles I. , the other for their attachment to the Par- liament that opposed him . It was afterwards his boast that he steered clear of the extremes for which his ancestors had been distinguished , having kept the spirit of the one ...
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... King very soon began to shew that they were to ex- pect neither favour nor mercy at his hands . Upon his landing at Greenwich , when the court came to wait upon him , and Lord Oxford among the num- ber , he studiously avoided taking any ...
... King very soon began to shew that they were to ex- pect neither favour nor mercy at his hands . Upon his landing at Greenwich , when the court came to wait upon him , and Lord Oxford among the num- ber , he studiously avoided taking any ...
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Page 420 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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...
Page 427 - 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 437 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger 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 394 - 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 251 - We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We have fished up very little gold that I can learn ; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.
Page 206 - ... state ; and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the net ; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Page 420 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 7 - For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend ; For SWIFT and him, despised the farce of state, • The sober follies of the wise and great ; Dext'rous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleased to 'scape from Flattery to Wit.
Page 411 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravish'd heart? But Thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest; When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Page 178 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them.