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Page 603
... shall tranfcribe the writ- ing which is on the back of the picture : “ This picture belonged to Deborah Mil ton , who was her father's amanuenfis ; at her death it was fold to Sir William Dave- nant's family : it was painted by Mr ...
... shall tranfcribe the writ- ing which is on the back of the picture : “ This picture belonged to Deborah Mil ton , who was her father's amanuenfis ; at her death it was fold to Sir William Dave- nant's family : it was painted by Mr ...
Page 621
... Shall we , who live under its brighteft difplay , feek after the glimmerings of a feeble enthufiaft ? Can we learn more from Swedenborg , or Priestley , than from Jefus Chrift ? or are they not bedimming and putting out " that light ...
... Shall we , who live under its brighteft difplay , feek after the glimmerings of a feeble enthufiaft ? Can we learn more from Swedenborg , or Priestley , than from Jefus Chrift ? or are they not bedimming and putting out " that light ...
Page 645
... shall give the following fpecimen : " Nay , two - legged cats , as well as cats with Shall Dick's irreparable lofs deplore ; [ four , Cats who frail nymphs in gay affemblies guard , As buckram ftiff , and bearded like the pard ...
... shall give the following fpecimen : " Nay , two - legged cats , as well as cats with Shall Dick's irreparable lofs deplore ; [ four , Cats who frail nymphs in gay affemblies guard , As buckram ftiff , and bearded like the pard ...
Page 648
... shall I think any country in Europe to be fecure , whilft there is established , in the very centre of it , a state ( if fo it may be called ) founded on principles of anarchy , and which is , in reality , a college of armed fanaticks ...
... shall I think any country in Europe to be fecure , whilft there is established , in the very centre of it , a state ( if fo it may be called ) founded on principles of anarchy , and which is , in reality , a college of armed fanaticks ...
Page 649
... shall recommend , by the strong eft of all sanctions , that is , by public honours and rewards . He ought to be cautious how be recommends authors of mixed and ambi- guous morality . He ought to be fearful of putting into the hands of ...
... shall recommend , by the strong eft of all sanctions , that is , by public honours and rewards . He ought to be cautious how be recommends authors of mixed and ambi- guous morality . He ought to be fearful of putting into the hands of ...
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Page 592 - 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 592 - ... 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 592 - 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 592 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...
Page 1123 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 973 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 844 - Tis heav'n has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Page 592 - I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 1124 - For him in vain his anxious wife shall wait, Or wander forth to meet him on his way; For him in vain, at to-fall of the day, His babes shall linger at. th' unclosing gate: Ah, ne'er shall he.
Page 1088 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.