The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, 1. köideStephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1799 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... himself , when he sees the inferiority of the few ministerial articles that have been introduced , one or two excepted . They are , however , the best , as has already been intimated , that could be obtained , after long and laborious ...
... himself , when he sees the inferiority of the few ministerial articles that have been introduced , one or two excepted . They are , however , the best , as has already been intimated , that could be obtained , after long and laborious ...
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... himself , that he shall be allowed the merit of having extracted from sources , to people in general , perfectly unattainable , and from an enormous mass of chaotic matter , a treat highly gratifying to all , who have any relish for wit ...
... himself , that he shall be allowed the merit of having extracted from sources , to people in general , perfectly unattainable , and from an enormous mass of chaotic matter , a treat highly gratifying to all , who have any relish for wit ...
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... himself fhall fwallow thee ! LXXXI . WHEN this frail life to man was giv'n , Charg'd with misfortune's bitter load , Women and wine were fent from heaven To help him o'er the rugged road ; But fure our Billy well may grumble , Fate ...
... himself fhall fwallow thee ! LXXXI . WHEN this frail life to man was giv'n , Charg'd with misfortune's bitter load , Women and wine were fent from heaven To help him o'er the rugged road ; But fure our Billy well may grumble , Fate ...
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... himself a beast . LXXXIX . THOUGH drunk as fish our rulers be , The thing fure little matters ; Only it forces you and me To fifh in troubled waters . XC . PARODY . JOLLY ftatefmen , fill your glaffes B 2 EPIGRAMMATA BACCHANALIA , 15.
... himself a beast . LXXXIX . THOUGH drunk as fish our rulers be , The thing fure little matters ; Only it forces you and me To fifh in troubled waters . XC . PARODY . JOLLY ftatefmen , fill your glaffes B 2 EPIGRAMMATA BACCHANALIA , 15.
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... himself to drink eight bottles . every day , as long as it lafts , for the complete fatis- faction of the friends of the deceafed . This worthy gentleman , with his ufual franknefs , confeffes that claret is apt to difagree with ...
... himself to drink eight bottles . every day , as long as it lafts , for the complete fatis- faction of the friends of the deceafed . This worthy gentleman , with his ufual franknefs , confeffes that claret is apt to difagree with ...
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Page 159 - Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State...
Page 259 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page iv - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 104 - Igni corusco nubila dividens Plerumque, per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum, Quo bruta tellus et vaga flumina, Quo Styx et invisi horrida Taenari 10 Sedes Atlanteusque finis Concutitur.
Page 119 - How blest my days, my thoughts how free, In sweet society with thee ! Then all was joyous, all was young, And years unheeded...
Page 229 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will...
Page 121 - Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall...
Page 232 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
Page 368 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Page 320 - Oh! hush these suspicions," Fair Imogine said, "Offensive to love and to me! For, if you be living, or if you be dead, I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead Shall husband of Imogine be.