 | British essayists - 1803 - 306 pages
...quality trom the improving and agreeable conversation ot a learned and obsequious friend. T a Mr. Oldham* lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...think themselves exalted to the sky, If they light in same noble family : Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a-year, Besides th' advantage of Ins lordship's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...scandalous sort of treatment which often accompanies it. /:•./., ' . ......i• i ...:. : I ..'.i ' ' • I 'tSome think themselves exalted to the sky, ,:... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. ' Mr. Oldham lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...accompanies it. Some think themselves exalted to the sky,If they light in some noble family : Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham * lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...passage on the life of a nobleman s chaplain, as illustrating both the merits and defects of his poetry : Some think themselves exalted to the sky If they light in some noble family ; Diet, a horse, and thirty pounds a-ycar. Besides the advantage of his Lordship's ear ; The credit of the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham * lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...the sky, If they light in some noble family : Diet, a horse, and thirty pounds a year. Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham* lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...the sky, If they light in some noble family : Diet, a horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham* lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...the sky, If they light in some noble family : Diet, a horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business,... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pages
...quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend. Mr. Oldham* lets us know, that he was affrighted from the thought...accompanies it : Some think themselves exalted to the skyf It' they light in some noble family : Diet, a Iwise, and thirty pounds a-year, Besides In' advantage... | |
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Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo. 
