A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland: With an Occasional Literary Inquiry Into the Age in which He Lived, and the Contemporaries with Whom He Flourished. Also, Memoirs of His Life and an Appendix Containing Twenty-six of His Original Letters, Relating to a Transaction Not Mentioned in His Own Memoirs, Količina 2Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812 - 621 strani |
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Stran 327 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye. That tears shall drown the wind. — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself, And falls on the other.
Stran 600 - Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
Stran 329 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ?'" Boswell: "But why smite his bosom, sir?" Johnson: "Why, to show he was in earnest
Stran 567 - Quel avantage at-on qu'un homme vous caresse, Vous jure amitié, foi, zèle, estime, tendresse, Et vous fasse de vous un éloge éclatant, Lorsqu'au premier faquin il court en faire autant ? Non, non, il n'est point d'âme un peu bien située Qui veuille d'une estime ainsi prostituée ; Et la plus glorieuse a des régals peu chers...
Stran 567 - Non, je ne puis souffrir cette lâche méthode Qu'affectent la plupart de vos gens à la mode; Et je ne hais rien tant que les contorsions De tous ces grands faiseurs de protestations, Ces affables donneurs d'embrassades frivoles, Ces obligeants diseurs d'inutiles paroles, Qui de civilités avec tous font combat, Et traitent du même air l'honnête homme et le fat.
Stran 354 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Stran 567 - Lorsqu'au premier faquin il court en faire autant ? Non, non, il n'est point d'âme un peu bien située, Qui veuille d'une estime ainsi prostituée : Et la plus glorieuse a des régals peu chers, Dès qu'on voit qu'on nous mêle avec tout l'univers.
Stran 438 - For the plot of this tragedy the most we can say is, that it is certainly of the moving sort, for it is here and there and every where ; a kind of theatrical hocus pocus; a creature of the pye-ball breed, like Jacob's muttons, between a black ram and a white ewe.
Stran 368 - I am, with great truth and regard, sir, ' Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) HILLSBOROUGH.
Stran 348 - ... communication on this subject, were made by my friends. Among the first of these, was an appointment with Mr. Richard Atkinson, the particular friend of Sir George Rodney, who was then in London, and was immediately to set out to take the command of the fleet in the West Indies. At this meeting, the whole of my acquisitions on the subject of Naval Tactics, for many years back, was discussed. I communicated to Mr. Atkinson the theories of attack from both the windward and the leeward ; the first...