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Page 629
... use of let- ters and of their reafon , know , that in reading of hiftories , or an account of any tran'actions , antient or modern , unless they have the true names of the perfons acting , and the places where they ' aed , it is no ...
... use of let- ters and of their reafon , know , that in reading of hiftories , or an account of any tran'actions , antient or modern , unless they have the true names of the perfons acting , and the places where they ' aed , it is no ...
Page 653
... use of spi- rits , has involved them in a difpute , into which Capt . Duncan has been drawn , by Capt . Meares making him fay , that Capt . Dixon refufed him relief at fea ; which " affertion Capt . Duncan avows " to be without ...
... use of spi- rits , has involved them in a difpute , into which Capt . Duncan has been drawn , by Capt . Meares making him fay , that Capt . Dixon refufed him relief at fea ; which " affertion Capt . Duncan avows " to be without ...
Page 663
... use ; To us compaffionate attend , Nor heav'nly charity refuse . On us let thy bright mercy fhine , Good God , as we confide in Thee ! Lord , we ourselves to Thee refign ; O'let us ne'er confufion fee ! Pembrokeshire , June . W ...
... use ; To us compaffionate attend , Nor heav'nly charity refuse . On us let thy bright mercy fhine , Good God , as we confide in Thee ! Lord , we ourselves to Thee refign ; O'let us ne'er confufion fee ! Pembrokeshire , June . W ...
Page 699
... use of the royal navy of this country . The Locuft is a wood of remarkably quick growth , fo much fo , that twenty - five or thirty years will produce a large tree , fit for the ufes commonly made of it . Its ftrength is equal to that ...
... use of the royal navy of this country . The Locuft is a wood of remarkably quick growth , fo much fo , that twenty - five or thirty years will produce a large tree , fit for the ufes commonly made of it . Its ftrength is equal to that ...
Page 700
... use of above , in calling this dialogue a How does the Doctor appear in it ? A true portrait . mixture of arrogance and dogmatifm , poffeffed , or willing to make his auditors believe he was poffeffed , of fuperior knowledge , by a kind ...
... use of above , in calling this dialogue a How does the Doctor appear in it ? A true portrait . mixture of arrogance and dogmatifm , poffeffed , or willing to make his auditors believe he was poffeffed , of fuperior knowledge , by a kind ...
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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.