ObserverT. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... gentlemen meet , who love to say a good thing without the trouble of inventing it . We are also in a fair train of knowing every thing that a late celebrated author said , as well as wrote , without an exception even of his most secret ...
... gentlemen meet , who love to say a good thing without the trouble of inventing it . We are also in a fair train of knowing every thing that a late celebrated author said , as well as wrote , without an exception even of his most secret ...
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... gentleman and rake of the age , had the indecorum to press Laberius to come forward on the public stage , and take the principal character in one of his own plays : Laberius was indignant , and Clodius proceeded to menaces : -'Do your ...
... gentleman and rake of the age , had the indecorum to press Laberius to come forward on the public stage , and take the principal character in one of his own plays : Laberius was indignant , and Clodius proceeded to menaces : -'Do your ...
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... gentlemen of name in their counties had been committed to close imprisonment for refusing payment ; ship - money also at this time began to be questioned as an intolerable grievance , and being one of the resources for enabling the ...
... gentlemen of name in their counties had been committed to close imprisonment for refusing payment ; ship - money also at this time began to be questioned as an intolerable grievance , and being one of the resources for enabling the ...
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... gentleman , are sure to follow upon the overflowing ebullitions of a vulgar familiarity broke loose from all restraints . It is a painful necessity men of sensibility are under , when they find themselves compelled to draw back from the ...
... gentleman , are sure to follow upon the overflowing ebullitions of a vulgar familiarity broke loose from all restraints . It is a painful necessity men of sensibility are under , when they find themselves compelled to draw back from the ...
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... gentleman , who may have many more natural good qualities than he himself is aware of , run about from house to house only to make sport for the scoffers , and to take a world of pains , and put on an air of gravity and im- portance ...
... gentleman , who may have many more natural good qualities than he himself is aware of , run about from house to house only to make sport for the scoffers , and to take a world of pains , and put on an air of gravity and im- portance ...
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Popular passages
Page 116 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 124 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 122 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 152 - 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 91 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 130 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Page 83 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 130 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 83 - And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Page 96 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.