The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 |
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Pàgina 3
... use very sparingly , and Speak but of few Things ' till they are pass'd , for fear of divulging Matters which may offend our Superiors . T White's Chocolate - house , April 7 . HE deplorable Condition of a very pretty Gentleman , who ...
... use very sparingly , and Speak but of few Things ' till they are pass'd , for fear of divulging Matters which may offend our Superiors . T White's Chocolate - house , April 7 . HE deplorable Condition of a very pretty Gentleman , who ...
Pàgina 16
From my own Apartment , April 13 . I find it of very great Use , now I am fet- ting up for a Writer of News , that I ... use of . Among others , ' tis faid , There is a general Murmuring among the People of France , France , tho ' at the ...
From my own Apartment , April 13 . I find it of very great Use , now I am fet- ting up for a Writer of News , that I ... use of . Among others , ' tis faid , There is a general Murmuring among the People of France , France , tho ' at the ...
Pàgina 33
... Use to great Perfection : He is held in the highest Veneration imaginable for a fevere Honesty , and Love of his Country : He lives in a Court , unfullied with any of its Artifices , the Refuge of the Oppreffed , and Terror of ...
... Use to great Perfection : He is held in the highest Veneration imaginable for a fevere Honesty , and Love of his Country : He lives in a Court , unfullied with any of its Artifices , the Refuge of the Oppreffed , and Terror of ...
Pàgina 49
... uses to fatisfy her were , to perfwade the Greeks to attack the Trojans ; that fo they might perceive the Confequence of contemn- ing Achilles , and the Miseries they suffer if he does not head them . The next Night he orders Agamemnon ...
... uses to fatisfy her were , to perfwade the Greeks to attack the Trojans ; that fo they might perceive the Confequence of contemn- ing Achilles , and the Miseries they suffer if he does not head them . The next Night he orders Agamemnon ...
Pàgina 52
... uses all imaginable Shifts to elude the Treaty con- cluded with the Emperor , and that he de- manded the immediate Reftitution of Com- macchio ; infifting alfo , That his Imperial Ma- jefty fhould ask Pardon , and defire Abfolu- tion ...
... uses all imaginable Shifts to elude the Treaty con- cluded with the Emperor , and that he de- manded the immediate Reftitution of Com- macchio ; infifting alfo , That his Imperial Ma- jefty fhould ask Pardon , and defire Abfolu- tion ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 294 - 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 295 - ... 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 357 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pàgina 251 - do you think my uncle takes any notice of such a dull rogue as you are?" Mr. William .goes on, " He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book : when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings. His way of thinking is...
Pàgina 289 - To my knowledge of this very hat it may be added, that the covering of straw was never used among the Jews, since it was demanded of them to make bricks without it. Therefore this is really nothing but, under the specious pretence of learning and antiquities, to impose upon the world.
Pàgina 269 - His friend advances, and so on, until they had all saluted her. By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows, at a loss what to do, without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics, at several peep-holes...
Pàgina 371 - ... to benevolence, and tend to a certain manner of being or appearing equal to the rest of the company ; for conversation is composed of an assembly of men, as they are men, and not as they are distinguished by fortune: therefore he who brings his quality with him into conversation, should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage, and not to meet his friends.
Pàgina 250 - I took three lads, who are under my guardianship, a-rambling, in a hackney-coach, to show them the town; as the lions, the tombs, Bedlam, and the other places which are entertainments to raw minds because they strike forcibly on the fancy.
Pàgina 8 - I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead, and if he has any shame, I don't doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance : for though the legs and arms, and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions ; yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.
Pàgina 159 - There is another sort of gentlemen whom I am much more concerned for, and that is the ingenious fraternity of which I have the honour to be an unworthy member; I mean the news-writers of Great Britain, whether 'Postmen