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Page 596
... attended to . When the object was right , you thought the means could not be wrong . By the dif courfes of your teachers , and the ex- clamations of your fuperiors in general , drinking confufion and damnation to us ( which is well ...
... attended to . When the object was right , you thought the means could not be wrong . By the dif courfes of your teachers , and the ex- clamations of your fuperiors in general , drinking confufion and damnation to us ( which is well ...
Page 599
... attended , in confequence of having the dinner coun- termanded , and reprefented , that he was fure there was no danger of any tumult , and recommended that the dinner might be had as was intended ; only propofing , that the gentlemen ...
... attended , in confequence of having the dinner coun- termanded , and reprefented , that he was fure there was no danger of any tumult , and recommended that the dinner might be had as was intended ; only propofing , that the gentlemen ...
Page 601
... attended by angelic hosts . Our Lord looked very unlike this perfon now to his infatuated adverfaries : but nothing could be more aweful , majeftic , and becoming , than fuch an admonition in fuch circum- ftances . " Dr. Gill , upon the ...
... attended by angelic hosts . Our Lord looked very unlike this perfon now to his infatuated adverfaries : but nothing could be more aweful , majeftic , and becoming , than fuch an admonition in fuch circum- ftances . " Dr. Gill , upon the ...
Page 602
... attending : " Will you swear , Sir , that this tobacco - ftopper was ever a part of the original mulberry - tree planted by Shakspeare ? " No , Sir , " replied the young man , “ I will not fwear it ; but my faiber will . " This young ...
... attending : " Will you swear , Sir , that this tobacco - ftopper was ever a part of the original mulberry - tree planted by Shakspeare ? " No , Sir , " replied the young man , “ I will not fwear it ; but my faiber will . " This young ...
Page 609
... attended to . All our aftros nomers , with whofe works I am ac- quainted , feem not to confider two mo tions at the fame moment of time ; which , I am inclined to believe , renders their theories rather uncertain , If Mr. Urban AFTER ...
... attended to . All our aftros nomers , with whofe works I am ac- quainted , feem not to confider two mo tions at the fame moment of time ; which , I am inclined to believe , renders their theories rather uncertain , If Mr. Urban AFTER ...
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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.