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... late countrymen the Americans , to whom they owed their former victories . Their future condi- tion , in the event of this pro- pofed emancipation from the go- vernment of Great Britain , was left almost entirely in the dark ; although ...
... late countrymen the Americans , to whom they owed their former victories . Their future condi- tion , in the event of this pro- pofed emancipation from the go- vernment of Great Britain , was left almost entirely in the dark ; although ...
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... late de- claration , as would not only con- vince her new allies of her fince- rity , but put it out of her own power to retract from her engage- ments with them . This was the public audience and reception given to the three American ...
... late de- claration , as would not only con- vince her new allies of her fince- rity , but put it out of her own power to retract from her engage- ments with them . This was the public audience and reception given to the three American ...
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... late war , and ftood particularly high in the efima- tion of Lord Anfon and Lord Hawke . In the navy he was in a manner adored . It was frongly 3 His However flattering thefe cir- cumftances might be , his taking fuch a command , was ...
... late war , and ftood particularly high in the efima- tion of Lord Anfon and Lord Hawke . In the navy he was in a manner adored . It was frongly 3 His However flattering thefe cir- cumftances might be , his taking fuch a command , was ...
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... late manifefto iffued by the Commiffioners at New York . The motion , after long debates , rejected upon a divifion . Similar motion by the Marquis of Rockingham , likewife caufes much debate , and is rejected upon a divifion . Proteft ...
... late manifefto iffued by the Commiffioners at New York . The motion , after long debates , rejected upon a divifion . Similar motion by the Marquis of Rockingham , likewife caufes much debate , and is rejected upon a divifion . Proteft ...
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... late measures which had been taken to pacify America , the plans of parliament . That the ar- rival of the commiffioners at Phi- ladelphia , without any knowledge of the intention to evacuate that city , had faddied them from the ...
... late measures which had been taken to pacify America , the plans of parliament . That the ar- rival of the commiffioners at Phi- ladelphia , without any knowledge of the intention to evacuate that city , had faddied them from the ...
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Page 23 - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.
Page 24 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.
Page 23 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Page 24 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Page 25 - This kind of writing, which was, I believe borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.
Page 26 - He has involved in his account of the fall of man the events which preceded and those that were to follow it : he has interwoven the whole system of theology with such propriety that every part appears to be necessary; and scarcely any recital is wished shorter for the sake of quickening the progress of the main action.
Page 352 - Then the lord chancellor, by his majefty's command, faid : My lords, and gentlemen, It is his majefty's royal will and pleafure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuefday, the fifth day of September next, to be then here holden ; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to the fifth day of September next.
Page 149 - ... by the help of the fat of hogs, has covered the whole with flour, laid on by a machine with the utmost regularity; if, when thus attired, he issues forth, and meets a Cherokee Indian, who has bestowed as much time at his toilet, and laid on with equal care and attention his yellow and red ochre on particular parts of his forehead or cheeks, as he judges most becoming...
Page 32 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Page 23 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.