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... excellent letter writ- ten to Pope , Jan. 20 , 1721 , in the ninth volume of this edition ; and indeed they had been sufficiently displayed , many years be- fore , in The Sentiments of a Church of England Man ; a treatise replete with ...
... excellent letter writ- ten to Pope , Jan. 20 , 1721 , in the ninth volume of this edition ; and indeed they had been sufficiently displayed , many years be- fore , in The Sentiments of a Church of England Man ; a treatise replete with ...
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... excellent as it is , an imitation of his manner . Don Quixote is in truth the most original and unrivalled work of modern times . The great art of Cervantes consists in having painted his mad hero with such a number of amiable qualities ...
... excellent as it is , an imitation of his manner . Don Quixote is in truth the most original and unrivalled work of modern times . The great art of Cervantes consists in having painted his mad hero with such a number of amiable qualities ...
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... excellent person is either dead , or carried by his vehement thirst of knowledge into some remote , or perhaps undiscovered Region of the world . In either case , I think it a debt no longer to be delayed , to reveal what I know of this ...
... excellent person is either dead , or carried by his vehement thirst of knowledge into some remote , or perhaps undiscovered Region of the world . In either case , I think it a debt no longer to be delayed , to reveal what I know of this ...
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... to ridicule the modern relator of this ridicu- lous practice , than the Ancients , from whence he took it . As it is a sure instance of folly , when amongst the many excellent the first of April , the birth - day of MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
... to ridicule the modern relator of this ridicu- lous practice , than the Ancients , from whence he took it . As it is a sure instance of folly , when amongst the many excellent the first of April , the birth - day of MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
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... excellent Pascal's amazing genius for Mathematics in his early youth ; and some trifling directions given for the introduction to knowledge in Mr. Locke's book of Education . tinctly pronounce C in the ancient manner , at which MARTINUS ...
... excellent Pascal's amazing genius for Mathematics in his early youth ; and some trifling directions given for the introduction to knowledge in Mr. Locke's book of Education . tinctly pronounce C in the ancient manner , at which MARTINUS ...
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Page 377 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 364 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Page 376 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Page 365 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 13 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Page 370 - Hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen. He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky, The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.
Page 19 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Page 386 - He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Page 369 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
Page 12 - Hoc erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons et paulum silvae super his foret.