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Pagina 2
... leave him hardly visible . They wished to have a more concise , and for that reason , perhaps a more satisfactory ac- count , such as may exhibit a just picture of the man , and keep him the principal figure in the fore ground of his ...
... leave him hardly visible . They wished to have a more concise , and for that reason , perhaps a more satisfactory ac- count , such as may exhibit a just picture of the man , and keep him the principal figure in the fore ground of his ...
Pagina 10
... leaving it to range over barbarous kingdoms , and convey wealth and plenty into Egypt , which owes to the annual inundations of this river its envied fertility . Lobo knows nothing of the Nile in the rest of its passage , except that it ...
... leaving it to range over barbarous kingdoms , and convey wealth and plenty into Egypt , which owes to the annual inundations of this river its envied fertility . Lobo knows nothing of the Nile in the rest of its passage , except that it ...
Pagina 15
... leave of a friend , who was with- drawing himself from all the vices of Rome . Struck with { this idea , he wrote that well known Poem , called London . The first lines manifestly point to Savage . " Though grief and fondness in my ...
... leave of a friend , who was with- drawing himself from all the vices of Rome . Struck with { this idea , he wrote that well known Poem , called London . The first lines manifestly point to Savage . " Though grief and fondness in my ...
Pagina 22
... leave his lordship at leisure . This was the famous Colley Cibber . Johnson saw him go , and fired with indignation , rushed out of the house . * What Lord Chesterfield thought of his visitor may be seen in a passage in one of that ...
... leave his lordship at leisure . This was the famous Colley Cibber . Johnson saw him go , and fired with indignation , rushed out of the house . * What Lord Chesterfield thought of his visitor may be seen in a passage in one of that ...
Pagina 48
... leave to represent him in that ignoble character . He went into Scotland to survey men and manners . Antiquities , fossils , and minerals , were not within his province . He did not visit that country to settle the station of Roman ...
... leave to represent him in that ignoble character . He went into Scotland to survey men and manners . Antiquities , fossils , and minerals , were not within his province . He did not visit that country to settle the station of Roman ...
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Pagina 27 - but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and
Pagina 322 - have died hereafter , There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to-day. To the last syllable of (2) recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! Life's but
Pagina 321 - Macbeth. I have liv'd long enough ; my -way of life, Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. As there is no relation between the way of life, and fallen into the sear, I am inclined to think, that the W is only an M inverted, and that it was originally written, My May of life.
Pagina 304 - whose plan obliged him to make Macbeth yield, has not confuted, though he might easily have shown that a former obligation could not be vacated by a latter. NOTE XVII. LETTING I dare not, wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i' th' adage. The adage alluded to is, The cat loves fish, but dares not
Pagina 309 - Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the (2) common enemy of man, To make them kings—the seed of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come fate into the list, (3) And champion me to th' utterance (1) As it is said, Anthony's was by
Pagina 371 - and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a lit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of
Pagina 346 - an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. They
Pagina 309 - him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If 'tis so, For Banquo's issue have I
Pagina 35 - MY LoRD, " When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself It vainqueur du vainqueur de
Pagina 107 - Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r ; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth