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... never weary me with the repetition of any- thing that makes me sensible of your kindness ; since that has been the only idea of any social happiness that I have almost ever received , and which ( begging your pardon for thinking so ...
... never weary me with the repetition of any- thing that makes me sensible of your kindness ; since that has been the only idea of any social happiness that I have almost ever received , and which ( begging your pardon for thinking so ...
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... never conceive ; we had enough to do to express it by screaming an hour louder than the whole dramatis personæ . We have also seen twice the Comédie Françoise ; first , the Mahomet Second , a tragedy that has had a great run of late ...
... never conceive ; we had enough to do to express it by screaming an hour louder than the whole dramatis personæ . We have also seen twice the Comédie Françoise ; first , the Mahomet Second , a tragedy that has had a great run of late ...
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... never come to any great familiarity with one another . As my Lord Conway had spent a good part of his time among them , his brother , and we with him , were soon introduced into all their assem- blies . As soon as you enter , the lady ...
... never come to any great familiarity with one another . As my Lord Conway had spent a good part of his time among them , his brother , and we with him , were soon introduced into all their assem- blies . As soon as you enter , the lady ...
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... never the worse . She goes through the middle of the city in state , and he passes incog . without the walls , but waits for her a little below . The houses here are so high , and the streets so narrow , as would be suffi- cient to ...
... never the worse . She goes through the middle of the city in state , and he passes incog . without the walls , but waits for her a little below . The houses here are so high , and the streets so narrow , as would be suffi- cient to ...
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... never saw after , was a most worthy character , tall and slim , of a pale and meagre look and complexion , and promised not half what he performed . [ Cole . ] : was rather too far advanced , and the weather LETTERS . 45.
... never saw after , was a most worthy character , tall and slim , of a pale and meagre look and complexion , and promised not half what he performed . [ Cole . ] : was rather too far advanced , and the weather LETTERS . 45.
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acquaintance Adieu admire Amst Antistrophe appear beautiful believe best compliments Brown called Cambridge Caractacus church College Comédie Française Conyers Middleton DEAR DOCTOR-I DEAR MASON-I dear Sir desire Dodsley Duke edition Elidurus eyes famous Florence fortnight give glad gout Gray's head hear heard hither honour hope HORACE WALPOLE imagine JAMES BROWN journey King Lady letter lines live London Lord master mention miles mountains Naples never night obliged opinion pass Pembroke Pembroke College perhaps Peterhouse Pindar pleasure Poems Pray printed published RICHARD WEST Rome seen shew sincerely Sir John Mordaunt soon sorry sort spirit stanza Stoke Stonhewer suppose sure Syphax Tacitus talk tell thing THOMAS WHARTON thought told town Tuthill verse Walpole's week WILLIAM MASON wish wonder word write wrote
Popular passages
Page 3 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 107 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 269 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud...
Page 267 - Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Page 344 - The office itself has always humbled the professor hitherto (even in an age when kings were somebody), if he were a poor writer by making him more conspicuous, and if he were a good one by setting him at war with the little fry of his own profession, for there are poets little enough to envy even a poet-laureat.
Page 268 - What strings symphonious tremble in the air. What strains of vocal transport round her play ? Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear : They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Page 266 - Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies ! Is the sable warrior fled ? — Thy son is gone ; he rests among the dead.
Page 267 - Edward, lo ! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof, the thread is spun !) Half of thy heart we consecrate ; (The web is wove, the work is done...
Page 105 - The incidents are ill laid and without invention ; but the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and the story of Wilson ; and throughout he shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court.
Page 400 - BLAKE.— LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. With Selections from his Poems and other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's own Works. By ALEXANDER GILCHRIST. A new and Enlarged Edition, with additional Letters, and a Memoir of the Author.