The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Volum 15Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1812 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST . SIR , [ Aug. 17. ] AM afraid you must do me the favour to provide me with another Newsman ; the person who has hitherto supplied me with papers I have long known to be an idle fellow and a drunkard ; but ...
... EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST . SIR , [ Aug. 17. ] AM afraid you must do me the favour to provide me with another Newsman ; the person who has hitherto supplied me with papers I have long known to be an idle fellow and a drunkard ; but ...
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... Editors of two or three of the London Journals have of late been af- flicted with a train of disorders , which , on different occasions , and in different constitutions , assume a variety of aspects : -the leading diagnostic strikes me ...
... Editors of two or three of the London Journals have of late been af- flicted with a train of disorders , which , on different occasions , and in different constitutions , assume a variety of aspects : -the leading diagnostic strikes me ...
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... Editor , the Doctor had stayed a minute longer to explain what he meant by " gilding the pill ; " for I am sure , by his smile , he had something comical in view - but he was that moment called away to an old 3 old bed - ridden Parson ...
... Editor , the Doctor had stayed a minute longer to explain what he meant by " gilding the pill ; " for I am sure , by his smile , he had something comical in view - but he was that moment called away to an old 3 old bed - ridden Parson ...
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... EDITOR OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER , & c . SIR , [ Sept. 21. ] M. H. G. OUR correspondent , Civis , bears a little too hard- upon our venerable guardians of the night , upon account of certain alleged negligence on the part of these NEGLECT OF ...
... EDITOR OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER , & c . SIR , [ Sept. 21. ] M. H. G. OUR correspondent , Civis , bears a little too hard- upon our venerable guardians of the night , upon account of certain alleged negligence on the part of these NEGLECT OF ...
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... EDITOR OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER , & c . SIR , IN [ Sept. 25. ] N the present improved age , it is next to impossible to look at the most triffing article but with wonder and astonishment ; and especially when one labours under the ...
... EDITOR OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER , & c . SIR , IN [ Sept. 25. ] N the present improved age , it is next to impossible to look at the most triffing article but with wonder and astonishment ; and especially when one labours under the ...
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Side 32 - Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Side 223 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 181 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Side 47 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Side 128 - I NEVER knew a sprightly fair That was not dear to me; And freely I my heart could share With every one I see. It is not this or that alone On whom my choice would fall: I do not more incline to one Than I incline to all. The circle's bounding line are they; Its centre is my heart; My ready love, the equal ray That flows to every part.
Side 42 - Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
Side 123 - So, close in poplar shades, (her children gone) The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th
Side 249 - AIR. From hardy sports, from manly schools, From Truth's pure lore in Learning's bower* From equal Law alike that rules The people's will, the monarch's power; From Piety, whose soul sincere Fears God, and knows no other fear ; From Loyalty, whose high disdain Turns from the fawning, faithless train ; From deeds the Historian's records show, . Valour's renown, and Freedom's glow, "Tis hence that springs the unconquered fire, That bids to Glory's heights aspire.
Side 163 - ... battle, Tooth and nail strove to worry him out of his life ; He robb'd him of children, slaves, houses, and cattle, But, mark me, he ne'er thought of taking his wife. But heaven at length Job's forbearance rewards, At length double wealth, double honor arrives, He doubles his children, slaves, houses, and herds, But we don't hear a word of a couple of wives.
Side 211 - It is, however, undeniable that, as the old proverb says, you may drag a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink...