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... measure dependent on Constitution , On the Present State of our Theatres , 38 43 48 III . On the Use of Language , . 54 History of Hypatia , 57 On Justice and Generosity , 61 Some Particulars relating to Father Feyjoo , 65 IV . On the ...
... measure dependent on Constitution , On the Present State of our Theatres , 38 43 48 III . On the Use of Language , . 54 History of Hypatia , 57 On Justice and Generosity , 61 Some Particulars relating to Father Feyjoo , 65 IV . On the ...
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... measure , removed . The pieces now for the first time collected are numerous ; but the Editor has said so much on most of them , in his recent Life of Goldsmith , that any detailed account of them here will not he required . Some of ...
... measure , removed . The pieces now for the first time collected are numerous ; but the Editor has said so much on most of them , in his recent Life of Goldsmith , that any detailed account of them here will not he required . Some of ...
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... measuring merit by adventitious circumstan- ces of greatness , they generally communicate those fatal preju- dices to their pupils , confirm their pride by adulation , or increase their ignorance by teaching them to despise that wisdom ...
... measuring merit by adventitious circumstan- ces of greatness , they generally communicate those fatal preju- dices to their pupils , confirm their pride by adulation , or increase their ignorance by teaching them to despise that wisdom ...
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... MEASURE DEPENDENT ON CONSTITUTION . When I reflect on the unambitious retirement in which I passed the earlier part of my life in the country , I cannot avoid feeling some pain in thinking that those happy days are never to return . In ...
... MEASURE DEPENDENT ON CONSTITUTION . When I reflect on the unambitious retirement in which I passed the earlier part of my life in the country , I cannot avoid feeling some pain in thinking that those happy days are never to return . In ...
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... De Retz was confined was that of Vincennes ; from this he was removed to Nantes , and thence he at length contrived to escape into Spain - See his Memoirs . ] and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by 46 THE BEE .
... De Retz was confined was that of Vincennes ; from this he was removed to Nantes , and thence he at length contrived to escape into Spain - See his Memoirs . ] and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by 46 THE BEE .
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Page 306 - 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 324 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger 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 535 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page ix - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 306 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 306 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 306 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 329 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 280 - 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 551 - ... reader. There are some parts of it very fine ; and let them save the badness of the rest. PKEFACE " THE ROHAN HISTORY J FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF ROME TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.