The Rising Sun,: A Serio-comic Satiric Romance, Volume 1Appleyards, 1807 |
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... SQUIRE GEORGE IN PARTICULAR.- GOOD GRAFTING , AND BUT INDIFFERENT FRUIT . -ON PASSIONS , IRREGULAR PLEASURES , AND BAD COMPANY . S THE good Lady Gildrig had so well responded to the ardours of her spouse , as to bring him a round dozen ...
... SQUIRE GEORGE IN PARTICULAR.- GOOD GRAFTING , AND BUT INDIFFERENT FRUIT . -ON PASSIONS , IRREGULAR PLEASURES , AND BAD COMPANY . S THE good Lady Gildrig had so well responded to the ardours of her spouse , as to bring him a round dozen ...
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... SQUIRE'S TALENTS , PRINCIPAL ACQUAINTANCE . THE READER ASKS THE AUTHOR A QUESTION , TO WHICH HE GIVES AN IMPERTINENT , THOUGH A PERTINENT ANSWER . Ir was universally allowed that the young Squire did not want for talents , so much as an ...
... SQUIRE'S TALENTS , PRINCIPAL ACQUAINTANCE . THE READER ASKS THE AUTHOR A QUESTION , TO WHICH HE GIVES AN IMPERTINENT , THOUGH A PERTINENT ANSWER . Ir was universally allowed that the young Squire did not want for talents , so much as an ...
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... Squire's acquain- tance ; and as- 66 -BRUTUS was an honourable man ; So were they all , —all honourable men . ” There were many other characters , all men of pleasure , admitted of the party ; but they were either such as had no ...
... Squire's acquain- tance ; and as- 66 -BRUTUS was an honourable man ; So were they all , —all honourable men . ” There were many other characters , all men of pleasure , admitted of the party ; but they were either such as had no ...
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... Squire ; but if he has neither seen nor perused the comedy of ' She stoops to conquer , ' he must either see or peruse it , or restrain his curiosity , till we shall think proper to gratify it . CHAPTER VII . THE SQUIRE BREAKS FROM HIS ...
... Squire ; but if he has neither seen nor perused the comedy of ' She stoops to conquer , ' he must either see or peruse it , or restrain his curiosity , till we shall think proper to gratify it . CHAPTER VII . THE SQUIRE BREAKS FROM HIS ...
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... Squire was out of the hands of Dr. Markbottom , he evinced that he would be a slave to his passions ( particularly to the fair sex ) , and that , devoid of gratitude , he would sacrifice his tenantry to his pleasures . - Now for the ...
... Squire was out of the hands of Dr. Markbottom , he evinced that he would be a slave to his passions ( particularly to the fair sex ) , and that , devoid of gratitude , he would sacrifice his tenantry to his pleasures . - Now for the ...
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Page 127 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 55 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 161 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 124 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 50 - Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it.
Page 54 - I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts he dwells, which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator...
Page 50 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance.
Page 57 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 50 - CONSIDER a human soul, without education, like marble in the quarry : which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vien, that runs through the body of it.
Page 93 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...