The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with NotesT. Becket, 1808 - 579 pages |
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Page vii
... hope the reader will comprehend the Doctor's sublime original ; but in my humble metaphorical application , it is as plain as the dance of the Sun , Moon , and Earth in the Rehearsal . Mark Indeed modern Translators and Makers of verses ...
... hope the reader will comprehend the Doctor's sublime original ; but in my humble metaphorical application , it is as plain as the dance of the Sun , Moon , and Earth in the Rehearsal . Mark Indeed modern Translators and Makers of verses ...
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... hope Mr Wirewove , you don't mean * Horace and Mr. Hayley ( with an amiable sympathy ) unite in this opi- nion of themselves . See Mr. H.'s Letter to Earl Cowper prefixed to his life of the Poet . best , the noblest , and the wisest men ...
... hope Mr Wirewove , you don't mean * Horace and Mr. Hayley ( with an amiable sympathy ) unite in this opi- nion of themselves . See Mr. H.'s Letter to Earl Cowper prefixed to his life of the Poet . best , the noblest , and the wisest men ...
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... hope there never will be found , either now or hereafter in Great Britain , a Muse so servile , so degraded , so lost , so forgetful of her honour and of her high preroga tive , as to offer incense at the throne , or at the shrine , of ...
... hope there never will be found , either now or hereafter in Great Britain , a Muse so servile , so degraded , so lost , so forgetful of her honour and of her high preroga tive , as to offer incense at the throne , or at the shrine , of ...
Page xvii
... hope still , that THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY will for ever remember , and act under the impression of the words of an ardent , powerful , and eloquent writer , that " From the beginning of the world " to this day , there never was ANY ...
... hope still , that THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY will for ever remember , and act under the impression of the words of an ardent , powerful , and eloquent writer , that " From the beginning of the world " to this day , there never was ANY ...
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... hope nor fear shall influence me to suppress . I will not sit unconcerned when ( public ) Liberty is threatened or invaded ; nor look in " silence on ( intended ) public Robbery . I will exert my endeavours , at whatever hazard , to ...
... hope nor fear shall influence me to suppress . I will not sit unconcerned when ( public ) Liberty is threatened or invaded ; nor look in " silence on ( intended ) public Robbery . I will exert my endeavours , at whatever hazard , to ...
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Page 256 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 257 - And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see ; and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
Page 453 - This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those, who languish under any part of his sufferings, shall be enabled to fortify their patience, by reflecting that they feel only those afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him; or...
Page 193 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 254 - I take to be the discovery of the Certainty or Probability of such Propositions or Truths, which the Mind arrives at by Deductions made from such Ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural Faculties, viz. by Sensation or Reflection.
Page 401 - Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours : I am willing to give this for that.
Page 407 - Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labour, in their place : Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, Or disappear'd. and left the first behind. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, But felt th...
Page 107 - The notes I could wish to be very large, in what relates to the persons concerned; for I have long observed that twenty miles from London nobody understands hints, initial letters, or town facts and passages; and in a few years not even those who live in London.
Page 453 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 247 - Stra. 834. the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal courts at common law? Wood, therefore, 409. ventures still to vary the phrase, and says " that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,