Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... less injustice was done to his adversary , Steele , by the Commons , who expelled him from their House for writing the Crisis , that very pamphlet which called forth Swift's answer . 2 “ Mr. Steele might have been safe enough if his ...
... less injustice was done to his adversary , Steele , by the Commons , who expelled him from their House for writing the Crisis , that very pamphlet which called forth Swift's answer . 2 “ Mr. Steele might have been safe enough if his ...
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... as deacon and priest . Swift maintained a more or less amicable corre- spondence with him till the Archbishop's death in 1729. See their letters , S. S. vol . xv . tion , as the sea fluctuates awhile when the storm 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... as deacon and priest . Swift maintained a more or less amicable corre- spondence with him till the Archbishop's death in 1729. See their letters , S. S. vol . xv . tion , as the sea fluctuates awhile when the storm 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... less importance in its real merit , than as it necessarily involved the grand ques- tion of the servitude or independence of Ireland . " And in his introduc- tion to the Drapier's Letters , after a long quotation from Coxe's Memoirs of ...
... less importance in its real merit , than as it necessarily involved the grand ques- tion of the servitude or independence of Ireland . " And in his introduc- tion to the Drapier's Letters , after a long quotation from Coxe's Memoirs of ...
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... less a question whether Wood's coin was debased or not , than whether the English minister could force a patent on Ireland in a way ho would never have attempted in England . - H . S. FAGAN . appearing forward and zealous on every ...
... less a question whether Wood's coin was debased or not , than whether the English minister could force a patent on Ireland in a way ho would never have attempted in England . - H . S. FAGAN . appearing forward and zealous on every ...
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... less frugal of his wine than of his meat . When his friends of either sex came to him , in expectation of a dinner , his custom was to give every one a shilling , that they might please themselves with their provision . At last his ...
... less frugal of his wine than of his meat . When his friends of either sex came to him , in expectation of a dinner , his custom was to give every one a shilling , that they might please themselves with their provision . At last his ...
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Stran 165 - When Ajax strives — the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; " when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet
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Stran 405 - Letters. By R. Carruthers. Numerous Illustrations. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, and other objects of Vertu. Comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, with the prices and names of the Possessors. Also an Introductory Lecture on Pottery and Porcelain, and an Engraved List of all Marks and Monograms. By HG Bohn. Numerous Woodcuts. - With coloured Illustrations, iof.
Stran 193 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
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Stran 410 - ENNEMOSEK'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c. 2 vols. HIND'S Introduction to Astronomy. With Vocabulary of the Terms in present. use. Numerous Woodcuts. 3^. 6d. HOGG'S (Jabez) Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy. Being
Stran 397 - Carni. GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes ; including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols. 2 Maps and Portrait. GOETHE'S Works. Trans, into English by EA Bowring, CB, Anna Swanwick, Sir Walter Scott, &c. &c. 13 vols. Vols. I. and_
Stran 410 - on Colour. Containing the Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and their Application to the Arts ; including Painting, Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Glazing, Staining, Calico Printing, Letterpress Printing, Map Colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, &c. Trans. by C. Martel. Several Plates. —— With an additional series of 16 Plates in Colours,
Stran 396 - with Two Lay Sermons. Literary ; to which is added, THE THEORY OF LIFE. Collected and arranged by T. Ashe, BA Miscellanies, Esthetic and COMMINES.—See Philip. CONDÉ'S History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain. Trans, by Mrs. Foster. Portrait of Abderahmen ben Moavia. 3 vols. COWPER'S Complete Works, Poems,