Poems on Various Subjects: Ornamented with Plates, and Illustrated with Notes, Original Letters and Curious Incidental Anecdotes. In the Course of which the Pretended Miracles of Vespasian are Examined and Detected. By Samuel WhyteRobert Marchbank, and sold by Byrne, Moore, Rice, Milliken, Mercier, &c. Booksellers, and by the editor, No. 75, Grafton St., 1795 - 545 pages |
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Page xi
... must arife from the family likenefs ; or if , gentle Reader ! thou be difpofed to do the Writer grace , impute it to inspiration , from the infancy of letters , the acknowleged claim of the tribe of Parnaffus . Every class of life has ...
... must arife from the family likenefs ; or if , gentle Reader ! thou be difpofed to do the Writer grace , impute it to inspiration , from the infancy of letters , the acknowleged claim of the tribe of Parnaffus . Every class of life has ...
Page xiv
... must have written more . It was faid , the Elegy alone was fufficient to immortalize his claim ; to this he oppofed his objections . Any gentleman , he infifted , of good education and claffical tafte , might make a lucky hit or two ...
... must have written more . It was faid , the Elegy alone was fufficient to immortalize his claim ; to this he oppofed his objections . Any gentleman , he infifted , of good education and claffical tafte , might make a lucky hit or two ...
Page xix
... must abide the teft of future ages . Perhaps in fome paroxyfm of contrition , the Reverend Cynic intended it as an expiatory facrifice for his many unwarrantable violations of decency and good manners ; but when it is under- stood how ...
... must abide the teft of future ages . Perhaps in fome paroxyfm of contrition , the Reverend Cynic intended it as an expiatory facrifice for his many unwarrantable violations of decency and good manners ; but when it is under- stood how ...
Page xxxiii
... must be prefumed , has something of his own , and , while he partakes of the general treasure , in adding his mite to the public ftock , he deserves his fhare of credit . But credit for literary performance is at beft fortuitous and ...
... must be prefumed , has something of his own , and , while he partakes of the general treasure , in adding his mite to the public ftock , he deserves his fhare of credit . But credit for literary performance is at beft fortuitous and ...
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... must have whiftlers , tumblers , mountebanks ! Are whiftlers , tumblers , mountebanks procur'd ? What , in a playhouse ? not to be endur'd ! Then the performers ! what a wretched crew ! 280 285 290 295 Juft Falstaff's corps ! why doesn ...
... must have whiftlers , tumblers , mountebanks ! Are whiftlers , tumblers , mountebanks procur'd ? What , in a playhouse ? not to be endur'd ! Then the performers ! what a wretched crew ! 280 285 290 295 Juft Falstaff's corps ! why doesn ...
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