The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Volum 21754 |
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Side 14
... against the Weakness of the Heart . Ofmyn therefore ftruggled in vain to revive departed Defire ; and for that Reason refolved to retire to one of his Eftates in the Country , and pass away his Hours of Wedlock in the noble Di- verfions ...
... against the Weakness of the Heart . Ofmyn therefore ftruggled in vain to revive departed Defire ; and for that Reason refolved to retire to one of his Eftates in the Country , and pass away his Hours of Wedlock in the noble Di- verfions ...
Side 30
... against , or to remedy the Evil which he bewail'd : For the Accept- ance of these Men being an Ill which hath crept into the Conversation - Part of our Lives , and not into our Conftitution itself , it must be corrected where it began ...
... against , or to remedy the Evil which he bewail'd : For the Accept- ance of these Men being an Ill which hath crept into the Conversation - Part of our Lives , and not into our Conftitution itself , it must be corrected where it began ...
Side 46
... against another Opportunity . Will's Coffee - boufe , August 24 . THE Author of the enfuing Letter by his Name , and the Quotations he makes from the Antients , feems a Sort of Spy from the old World , whom we Moderns ought to be ...
... against another Opportunity . Will's Coffee - boufe , August 24 . THE Author of the enfuing Letter by his Name , and the Quotations he makes from the Antients , feems a Sort of Spy from the old World , whom we Moderns ought to be ...
Side 47
... against the Perfon he rallies . Obadiah Green- hat has hit this very well : For to make an Apology to Ifaac Bickerstaff , an unknown Student and Horary Hiftorian , as well as Aftrologer , and with a grave Face to fay , he speaks of him ...
... against the Perfon he rallies . Obadiah Green- hat has hit this very well : For to make an Apology to Ifaac Bickerstaff , an unknown Student and Horary Hiftorian , as well as Aftrologer , and with a grave Face to fay , he speaks of him ...
Side 51
... against it ; then goes into his Clofet , and locking himself in , " read his Notes over again about Nineteen Times , which did but increase his Aftonishment . Soon after , he began to recollect D2 recollect many Stories he had formerly ...
... against it ; then goes into his Clofet , and locking himself in , " read his Notes over again about Nineteen Times , which did but increase his Aftonishment . Soon after , he began to recollect D2 recollect many Stories he had formerly ...
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Side 286 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Side 241 - ... he saw two women of a larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...
Side 295 - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Side 302 - It happened, that the very next who was brought before me was one of her admirers, who was indicted upon that very head. A letter which he acknowledged to be his own hand was read, in which were the following words, " Cruel creature, I die for you.
Side 245 - ... first. Our passions and inclinations come over next ; and our reason surrenders itself with pleasure in the end. Thus the whole soul is insensibly, betrayed into morality, by bribing the fancy with beautiful and agreeable images of those...
Side 82 - ... many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
Side 318 - ... and keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of disturbing her in her last moments ; and the wife even at that time concealing; the pains she endured, for fear of increasing his affliction.
Side 164 - I must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight of these ghastly appearances : but on a sudden, the voice of the trumpet came more full upon us, so that we felt a new resolution reviving in us ; and in proportion as this resolution grew, the terrors before us seemed to vanish. Most of the company, who had swords in their hands, marched on with great spirit, and an air of defiance, up the road that was commanded by Death ; while others, who had thought and contemplation in their looks, went...
Side 286 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
Side 231 - Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them.