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Side 62
... Satyrs com pos'd by those who scarce know how to write . By the last Post in particular I received a Packet of Scandal which is not legible ; and have a whole Bundle of Letters in Women's Hands that are full of Blots and Calumnies ...
... Satyrs com pos'd by those who scarce know how to write . By the last Post in particular I received a Packet of Scandal which is not legible ; and have a whole Bundle of Letters in Women's Hands that are full of Blots and Calumnies ...
Side 85
... Satyrs , that are written with Wit and Spirit , are like poisoned Darts , which not only inflict a Wound , but make it ... Satyr will then chiefly fall upon those who ought to be the most exempt from it . Virtue , Merit , and every thing ...
... Satyrs , that are written with Wit and Spirit , are like poisoned Darts , which not only inflict a Wound , but make it ... Satyr will then chiefly fall upon those who ought to be the most exempt from it . Virtue , Merit , and every thing ...
Side 86
... Satyr do not carry in 1711 , them Robbery or Murder ; but at the same time , how many are there that would not rather lose a consider able Sum of Mony , or even Life it self , than be set up as a Mark of Infamy and Derision ? And in ...
... Satyr do not carry in 1711 , them Robbery or Murder ; but at the same time , how many are there that would not rather lose a consider able Sum of Mony , or even Life it self , than be set up as a Mark of Infamy and Derision ? And in ...
Side 88
... Satyr : As if it were not infinitely more honourable to be a good - natured Man , than a Wit . Where there is this little petulant Humour in an Author , he is often very mischievous without designing to be so . For which Reason I always ...
... Satyr : As if it were not infinitely more honourable to be a good - natured Man , than a Wit . Where there is this little petulant Humour in an Author , he is often very mischievous without designing to be so . For which Reason I always ...
Side 96
... Satyr upon the departed Persons ; who had left no other Memorial of them , but that they were born and that they died . They put me in mind of several Persons mentioned in the Battels of Heroic Poems , who have sounding Names given them ...
... Satyr upon the departed Persons ; who had left no other Memorial of them , but that they were born and that they died . They put me in mind of several Persons mentioned in the Battels of Heroic Poems , who have sounding Names given them ...
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Side 49 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Side 154 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 110 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Side 98 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Side 128 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Side 281 - Look no more, said he, on Man in the first Stage of his Existence, in his setting out for Eternity; but cast thine Eye on that thick Mist into which the Tide bears the several Generations of Mortals that fall into it.
Side 293 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Side 109 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Side 98 - ... instead of the brave rough English Admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to...
Side 280 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.