The Polite Miscellany: Containing Variety of Food for the Mind; Being an Elegant Collection of Moral, Humourous, and Improving Essays, &c, Both in Prose and Verse ...R. Whitworth, 1764 - 370 էջ |
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... shall be delivered . From falfenefs of heart , and the want of compaffion , may our great gentlemen and ladies be preferved . And likewife from folly and flattery , from contempt of merit and hatred of integrity , from buffoons , pimps ...
... shall be delivered . From falfenefs of heart , and the want of compaffion , may our great gentlemen and ladies be preferved . And likewife from folly and flattery , from contempt of merit and hatred of integrity , from buffoons , pimps ...
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... Shall their wretched experience be quoted as inftan- ces to prove matrimony unworthy our choice ! So two rich mountains of Peru + May rufh to wealthy marriage too . The real felicity of marriage does undoubtedly confist in an union of ...
... Shall their wretched experience be quoted as inftan- ces to prove matrimony unworthy our choice ! So two rich mountains of Peru + May rufh to wealthy marriage too . The real felicity of marriage does undoubtedly confist in an union of ...
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... Shall I wrong you in fuppofing you apprehenfive of fuch a ftrict refolution , as if it would lead you into thorny paths , or confine you to a narrow track , full of fcruples and pee- vifhnefs ? Truft me it will not . On the contrary ...
... Shall I wrong you in fuppofing you apprehenfive of fuch a ftrict refolution , as if it would lead you into thorny paths , or confine you to a narrow track , full of fcruples and pee- vifhnefs ? Truft me it will not . On the contrary ...
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... shall at belt tofs about without a rudder , and without a compafs .. Thus , Sir , I have given you my fentiments , in the first place , on the motives of intereft and of paffion ; which when they become the leading and prevailing ones ...
... shall at belt tofs about without a rudder , and without a compafs .. Thus , Sir , I have given you my fentiments , in the first place , on the motives of intereft and of paffion ; which when they become the leading and prevailing ones ...
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... shall fuch wretched vulgar Greters , of filthy , horrid , clumfy features , Mechanic things , whom no one knows , Prefume to reafon and fuppofe ? Dareft thou pretend to preach to me ? PHOEBUS I Care not for , nor thee . Then clapp'd her ...
... shall fuch wretched vulgar Greters , of filthy , horrid , clumfy features , Mechanic things , whom no one knows , Prefume to reafon and fuppofe ? Dareft thou pretend to preach to me ? PHOEBUS I Care not for , nor thee . Then clapp'd her ...
Common terms and phrases
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Էջ 203 - King, upon the commencement of the last war with France pulled down his old sign, and put up the Queen of Hungary. Under the influence of her red face and golden sceptre, he continued to sell ale till she was no longer the favourite of his customers; he changed her, therefore, some time ago, for the King of Prussia, who may probably be changed in turn for the next great man that shall be set up for vulgar admiration.
Էջ 114 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Էջ 176 - By lust incited, or by malice led, The villain Arab ! as he prowls for prey, Oft marks with blood and...
Էջ 121 - ... more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a...
Էջ 114 - What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...
Էջ 232 - Griping misers, nightly waking, See the end of all your care ; Fled on wings of our own making, We have left our owners bare.
Էջ 205 - ... the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own ; ages yet unborn shall gaze with wonder and applause...
Էջ 103 - Grac'd with soft arts, the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you to your loves...
Էջ 24 - Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Էջ 287 - Little do such men know the toil, the pains, The daily, nightly racking of the brains, To range the thoughts, the matter to digest, To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest...