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... Amusements , Follies , and Vices in fashion : particularly the most recent Topics of Conver- sation : Remarks on Theatrical Exhibitions : Memoirs of Modern Literature , & c . & c . Printed for J. Wilkie , at the Bible in St. Paul's ...
... Amusements , Follies , and Vices in fashion : particularly the most recent Topics of Conver- sation : Remarks on Theatrical Exhibitions : Memoirs of Modern Literature , & c . & c . Printed for J. Wilkie , at the Bible in St. Paul's ...
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... amusement . This reply may also serve as an apology to the reader , who expects , before he sits down , a bill of his future enter- tainment . It would be improper to pall his curiosity by lessening his surprise , or anticipate any ...
... amusement . This reply may also serve as an apology to the reader , who expects , before he sits down , a bill of his future enter- tainment . It would be improper to pall his curiosity by lessening his surprise , or anticipate any ...
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... , we continued silent for some time , employed very different speculations . I regarded the whole com- pany , now passing in review before me , as drawn out merely for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had ON DRESS . 25.
... , we continued silent for some time , employed very different speculations . I regarded the whole com- pany , now passing in review before me , as drawn out merely for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had ON DRESS . 25.
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Oliver Goldsmith sir James Prior. for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had all that morning been improving her charms , the beau had put on lace , and the young doctor a big wig , merely to please me . But quite different ...
Oliver Goldsmith sir James Prior. for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had all that morning been improving her charms , the beau had put on lace , and the young doctor a big wig , merely to please me . But quite different ...
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... amusement for spending the evening . Happy could so charming an illusion still continue ! I find that age and knowledge only contribute to sour our dispositions . My present enjoyments may be more refined , but they are infi- nitely ...
... amusement for spending the evening . Happy could so charming an illusion still continue ! I find that age and knowledge only contribute to sour our dispositions . My present enjoyments may be more refined , but they are infi- nitely ...
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Side 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...