The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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Pàgina 11
... enemy had formed a defign to surprise two battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft : but thofe battalions received ad- vice of their march , and retired to Dender- mond . Lieutenant General Wood appeared on this occafion at the head ...
... enemy had formed a defign to surprise two battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft : but thofe battalions received ad- vice of their march , and retired to Dender- mond . Lieutenant General Wood appeared on this occafion at the head ...
Pàgina 19
... enemy . The Emperor is roused by this alarm , and the frontiers of all the French dominions are in danger of being infulted the enfuing campaign . Advices from all parts confirm , that it is im- poffible for France to find a way to ...
... enemy . The Emperor is roused by this alarm , and the frontiers of all the French dominions are in danger of being infulted the enfuing campaign . Advices from all parts confirm , that it is im- poffible for France to find a way to ...
Pàgina 29
... enemy , and per- plexing their fpeculations concerning his real defigns the enfuing campaign . Contracts are entered into with the merchants of Milan , for a great number of mules to tranfport his provi fions and ammunition . His Royal ...
... enemy , and per- plexing their fpeculations concerning his real defigns the enfuing campaign . Contracts are entered into with the merchants of Milan , for a great number of mules to tranfport his provi fions and ammunition . His Royal ...
Pàgina 38
... enemy the ensuing campaign . Upon this reprefentation the Em- peror has given orders to feveral regiments to march towards the Rhine , and dispatched ex- preffes to the refpective Princes of the empire , to defire an augmentation of ...
... enemy the ensuing campaign . Upon this reprefentation the Em- peror has given orders to feveral regiments to march towards the Rhine , and dispatched ex- preffes to the refpective Princes of the empire , to defire an augmentation of ...
Pàgina 39
Sir Richard Steele. engaged the enemy at Afche , and took two hundred of them prifoners , obliging the rest to retire without making any farther attempt . On the twenty - second in the morning a fleet of merchant fhips coming from ...
Sir Richard Steele. engaged the enemy at Afche , and took two hundred of them prifoners , obliging the rest to retire without making any farther attempt . On the twenty - second in the morning a fleet of merchant fhips coming from ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 398 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pàgina 400 - Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man...
Pàgina 399 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Pàgina 400 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 201 - Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great writer, and got himself a reputation from plagues and famines ; by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has lately done by the sword. In every dearth of news, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled.
Pàgina 411 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Pàgina 5 - ... bosom. In a word, his attention to any thing but his passion was utterly gone. He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon, since the moment he first saw her.
Pàgina 151 - Poets, for my raillery upon his work ; though I aimed at no more in that examination, but to convince him, and all men of genius, of the folly of laying themselves out on such plans as are below their characters. I hope too it was done without...
Pàgina 304 - ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.
Pàgina 168 - The little triumph he appeared in, when he got such a trifling stock of ready money, though he had ventured so great sums with indifference, increased my admiration. But Pacolet began to talk to me. "Mr. Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that...