Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Band 33John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1854 |
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... speak at length presently . In the mean time , to proceed with Shake- speare's charges : there is another matter in which a most unfavorable impression is left against him , on which it is desirable to say something . He is said to have ...
... speak at length presently . In the mean time , to proceed with Shake- speare's charges : there is another matter in which a most unfavorable impression is left against him , on which it is desirable to say something . He is said to have ...
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... speak well of Wolsey at all ; but when the many years which had intervened of clamor and pre- judice had impaired his real knowledge , and had even injured partially his good feeling . Thus his book is full of inconsistency ; and , at ...
... speak well of Wolsey at all ; but when the many years which had intervened of clamor and pre- judice had impaired his real knowledge , and had even injured partially his good feeling . Thus his book is full of inconsistency ; and , at ...
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... speak blunt truths in blunt language and half the world implored her , to surrender to kings and emperors , he is likely enough her rights as the wife of an English king . not to have been over courteous in his lan- guage at the council ...
... speak blunt truths in blunt language and half the world implored her , to surrender to kings and emperors , he is likely enough her rights as the wife of an English king . not to have been over courteous in his lan- guage at the council ...
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... speak of as murders : the idea of danger to the state being utterly rejected , as a plea either of cowardice trembling at imaginary dangers , or of falsehood stooping to conceal its cru- elty behind groundless and futile accusation ...
... speak of as murders : the idea of danger to the state being utterly rejected , as a plea either of cowardice trembling at imaginary dangers , or of falsehood stooping to conceal its cru- elty behind groundless and futile accusation ...
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... speak , however , nothing could be more difficult . The loyalty which was felt for Henry might and would be trans- ferred to his legitimate children ; but if he died without children , or if fair ground ex- isted of questioning their ...
... speak , however , nothing could be more difficult . The loyalty which was felt for Henry might and would be trans- ferred to his legitimate children ; but if he died without children , or if fair ground ex- isted of questioning their ...
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Seite 76 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 265 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Seite 470 - if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go righ't ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Seite 466 - The country gentleman, after staring a little at the singularity of his manner, and the oddity of the question, answered, " Yes, sir, I thank God, I remember a great deal of good weather in my time." — " That is more," said Swift, " than I can say ; I never remember any weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
Seite 477 - I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture ; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few ; few and miserable they must be. I am, for those few days, Yours entirely, J. SWIFT. If I do not blunder, it...
Seite 477 - See, how the dean begins to break! Poor gentleman, he droops apace! You plainly find it in his face. That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays; He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends to mind; Forgets the place where last he dined; Plies you with stories o'er and o'er; He told them fifty times before.
Seite 113 - Here out of the window it was a most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells rang everywhere.
Seite 475 - Nor was a burden to mankind With half her course of years behind. You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of changed or falling hairs; How wit and virtue from within Send out a smoothness o'er the skin: Your lectures could my fancy fix, And I can please at thirty-six.
Seite 80 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals...
Seite 472 - If we let these great ministers pretend too much, there will be no governing them.