Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... cum scientia divinarum rerum sit humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . 5- % 20 11 - 28 - to FL Grad ESSAYS ,
... cum scientia divinarum rerum sit humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . 5- % 20 11 - 28 - to FL Grad ESSAYS ,
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... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in N ° 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in N ° 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
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... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
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... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
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... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
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Page 337 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, "SAM JOHNSON.
Page 337 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 307 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 336 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 404 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Page 336 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 464 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Page 254 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Page 307 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 338 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.