Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly Original, Observations on Men and BooksR. Crutwell, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... in Gardening Fame Fanaticism ... Female Wisdom , Thoughts on Fits of Politeuess ... ... 48 926 ...... 128 2 ...... 128 ......... 194 .... 156 ......... ...... 213 ...... 86 26 135 ...... 2 ...... 163 57 ...... 56 109 206 214 : ......
... in Gardening Fame Fanaticism ... Female Wisdom , Thoughts on Fits of Politeuess ... ... 48 926 ...... 128 2 ...... 128 ......... 194 .... 156 ......... ...... 213 ...... 86 26 135 ...... 2 ...... 163 57 ...... 56 109 206 214 : ......
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... Words Wordsworth , the Poet ... Young's Night Thoughts ... ... Page 11 i .. ...... 210 78 ...... 10 / 193 80 ... ... ........ 36 ...... 223 69 ... ...... 165 103 ...... 103 30 ...... ......... 140 94 ... 105 91 NOCTES ATTICE . Anecdotes of ...
... Words Wordsworth , the Poet ... Young's Night Thoughts ... ... Page 11 i .. ...... 210 78 ...... 10 / 193 80 ... ... ........ 36 ...... 223 69 ... ...... 165 103 ...... 103 30 ...... ......... 140 94 ... 105 91 NOCTES ATTICE . Anecdotes of ...
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... thought to be unjust ! Yet , ' Tis hard to say , if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill . Courtship . Pope . It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility , at the very time ...
... thought to be unjust ! Yet , ' Tis hard to say , if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill . Courtship . Pope . It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility , at the very time ...
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... thought it worth while to reprint it ; or because the edition was very expensive , and in the first place consisted of few copies . If mere antiquity and scarceness are the grounds on which these very curious purchasers proceed , we 35 ...
... thought it worth while to reprint it ; or because the edition was very expensive , and in the first place consisted of few copies . If mere antiquity and scarceness are the grounds on which these very curious purchasers proceed , we 35 ...
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... and sometimes justi- fies the extravagance of spendthrifts , whilst they heap censure on the miser , whose conduct in society seems so much less replete with folly and evil consequences . Yet on second thoughts the mystery is 55.
... and sometimes justi- fies the extravagance of spendthrifts , whilst they heap censure on the miser , whose conduct in society seems so much less replete with folly and evil consequences . Yet on second thoughts the mystery is 55.
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Página 34 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Página 68 - What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks, How due ! yet all His good...
Página 129 - FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Página 45 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Página 28 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Página 22 - Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.
Página 40 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Página 119 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 5 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Página 193 - ... let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country.