Miscellanies in Prose and VerseJohn Morphew, 1711 - 416 páginas |
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... Ruins of White - Hall that was Burnt , 364 THE Defcription of a Salamander , 372 BAUCIS and Philemon . * from the Eighth Book of Ovid , TO Mrs. Biddy Floyd , Imitated 377 . 388 THE Hiftory of V's House , 389 A Grubftreet Elegy on the ...
... Ruins of White - Hall that was Burnt , 364 THE Defcription of a Salamander , 372 BAUCIS and Philemon . * from the Eighth Book of Ovid , TO Mrs. Biddy Floyd , Imitated 377 . 388 THE Hiftory of V's House , 389 A Grubftreet Elegy on the ...
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... Dominatio Plebis , or Tyranny of the Commons , which it feems they were at all times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the Causes that ruin'd their State : And And the frequent Murders of their Ge- Lib . 20. in ATHENS and ROME . 9.
... Dominatio Plebis , or Tyranny of the Commons , which it feems they were at all times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the Causes that ruin'd their State : And And the frequent Murders of their Ge- Lib . 20. in ATHENS and ROME . 9.
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... Ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter ; I fhall treat on both exprefly ; that thofe States who are concerned in either ( if at least , there be any fuch now in the World ) may by ob- ferving ...
... Ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter ; I fhall treat on both exprefly ; that thofe States who are concerned in either ( if at least , there be any fuch now in the World ) may by ob- ferving ...
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... Ruin of Athens . THE fame People having resolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty Fleet under the command of Nicias , Lamachus , and ALCIBIADES : the two former , Perfons of Age and Experience ; the laft 1 laft a young Man of noble ...
... Ruin of Athens . THE fame People having resolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty Fleet under the command of Nicias , Lamachus , and ALCIBIADES : the two former , Perfons of Age and Experience ; the laft 1 laft a young Man of noble ...
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... Athenians , takes the City , races their Walls , ruins their Works , and changes the Form of their Government ; which though again re- ftored } ftored for fome time by Thrafybulus ( as their Walls in ATHENS and ROME . 29.
... Athenians , takes the City , races their Walls , ruins their Works , and changes the Form of their Government ; which though again re- ftored } ftored for fome time by Thrafybulus ( as their Walls in ATHENS and ROME . 29.
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Página 385 - Twas Madam, in her grogram gown. Philemon was in great surprise, And hardly could believe his eyes, Amaz'd to see her look so prim ; And she admir'd as much at him. Thus happy in their change of life Were several years this man and wife ; When, on a day, which prov'd their...
Página 175 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice...
Página 232 - Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk...
Página 238 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 153 - Parliament, because that was looked upon as a design to oppose the current of the people, which besides the folly of it, is a manifest breach of the fundamental law that makes this majority of opinion the voice of God.
Página 235 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Página 356 - So I went to the party suspected, and I found her full of grief; (Now you must know, of all things in the world, I hate a thief). However, I was resolv'd to bring the discourse slily about, Mrs Dukes...
Página 68 - I should think that the saying, Vox populi vox Dei, ought to be understood of the universal bent and current of a People, not of the bare majority of a few representatives ; which is often procured by little arts, and great industry and application ; wherein those, who engage in the pursuits of malice and revenge, are much more sedulous than such as would prevent them.