Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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Page 136
... devil's in it if you would have succeeded . " He then made his bow and took leave of the con- founded architect . CCLIX . LOUIS XIV . AND THE GASCON . At a review which took place before Louis XIV . , the horse of a Gascon reared up so ...
... devil's in it if you would have succeeded . " He then made his bow and took leave of the con- founded architect . CCLIX . LOUIS XIV . AND THE GASCON . At a review which took place before Louis XIV . , the horse of a Gascon reared up so ...
Page 143
... devil's in it if you would have succeeded . " He then made his bow and took leave of the con- founded architect . CCLIX . LOUIS XIV . AND THE GASCON . At a review which took place before Louis XIV . , the horse of a Gascon reared up so ...
... devil's in it if you would have succeeded . " He then made his bow and took leave of the con- founded architect . CCLIX . LOUIS XIV . AND THE GASCON . At a review which took place before Louis XIV . , the horse of a Gascon reared up so ...
Page 159
... Devil , personified in that poem . He railed at this invention as extravagant , and made it the principal object of his sarcasms . Young , indignant at this tone of irreverence and levity , addressed him in the following epigram ...
... Devil , personified in that poem . He railed at this invention as extravagant , and made it the principal object of his sarcasms . Young , indignant at this tone of irreverence and levity , addressed him in the following epigram ...
Page 168
... DEVILS . A person of quality came to my chamber in the Temple , and told me he had two devils in his head , ( I wondered what he meant , ) and , just at that time , one of them bid him kill me . With that I began to be afraid , and ...
... DEVILS . A person of quality came to my chamber in the Temple , and told me he had two devils in his head , ( I wondered what he meant , ) and , just at that time , one of them bid him kill me . With that I began to be afraid , and ...
Page 169
... devils in his head , and he perceived two of them were gone , with that which I had given him , but the other two troubled him still . " Well , " said I , " I am glad two of them are gone ; I make no doubt to get away the other two ...
... devils in his head , and he perceived two of them were gone , with that which I had given him , but the other two troubled him still . " Well , " said I , " I am glad two of them are gone ; I make no doubt to get away the other two ...
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