The Works, Zväzok 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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... Court , and in the best Companies of England , Remarks by the Editor , • • Introduction , Dialogue I. Dialogue II . Dialogue III . • 133 156 • 167 • 178 202 • • 215 • 217 • 237 · 246 • 249 • 255 · 260 • 265 • 266 267 • 270 274 • 286 289 ...
... Court , and in the best Companies of England , Remarks by the Editor , • • Introduction , Dialogue I. Dialogue II . Dialogue III . • 133 156 • 167 • 178 202 • • 215 • 217 • 237 · 246 • 249 • 255 · 260 • 265 • 266 267 • 270 274 • 286 289 ...
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... Court , as the " Memoirs from the New Atalantis " are with those of ours . I shall make it my business to inquire into the progress of this learned institution , and give you the first notice of their " Philosophical Transactions , and ...
... Court , as the " Memoirs from the New Atalantis " are with those of ours . I shall make it my business to inquire into the progress of this learned institution , and give you the first notice of their " Philosophical Transactions , and ...
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... Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper , of five or six hundred pages , and rated accordingly . I would engage to furnish you with a catalogue of English books , published within the compass of seven years past ...
... Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper , of five or six hundred pages , and rated accordingly . I would engage to furnish you with a catalogue of English books , published within the compass of seven years past ...
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... court , the town , or the theatre , are the first perishing parts in any language ; and , as I could prove by many hundred instances , have been so in ours . The writings of Hooker , who was a country clergyman , and of Parsons the ...
... court , the town , or the theatre , are the first perishing parts in any language ; and , as I could prove by many hundred instances , have been so in ours . The writings of Hooker , who was a country clergyman , and of Parsons the ...
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... court at North - British hoppers ; so we paid our North - Briton sooner than we designed , and took coach to North - Britain yard , about which place most of us live . We had indeed gone a - foot ; only we were under some apprehensions ...
... court at North - British hoppers ; so we paid our North - Briton sooner than we designed , and took coach to North - Britain yard , about which place most of us live . We had indeed gone a - foot ; only we were under some apprehensions ...
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Strana 121 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
Strana 121 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Strana 340 - A Complete Collection Of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England.
Strana 275 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Strana 362 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Strana 362 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Strana 141 - ... and even then our best writings might probably' be preserved with care, and grow into esteem, and the authors have a chance for immortality.
Strana 223 - What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Strana 143 - From the civil war to this present time, I am apt to doubt, whether the corruptions in our language have not at least equalled the refinements of it ; and these corruptions very few of the best authors in our age have wholly escaped.
Strana 137 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.