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... hands as a pin , before publication . One of the most successful compositions of this kind was the Turkish Spy , which still retains a considerable degree of popu larity . Dunton says , it was a compila- tion , conducted by Nat . Crouch ...
... hands as a pin , before publication . One of the most successful compositions of this kind was the Turkish Spy , which still retains a considerable degree of popu larity . Dunton says , it was a compila- tion , conducted by Nat . Crouch ...
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... hand than mine , it might have possessed superior claims to attention ; but I could then have * Porqué te sé decir , que aunque me costó algun trabajo componerla , ninguno tuve por mayor que hacer esta prefacion que vas leyendo . Muchas ...
... hand than mine , it might have possessed superior claims to attention ; but I could then have * Porqué te sé decir , que aunque me costó algun trabajo componerla , ninguno tuve por mayor que hacer esta prefacion que vas leyendo . Muchas ...
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... hands , from a few casual notes and references , to the size of a formal treatise : I trust it will be found , however , that I have had sufficient dis- cretion not to bestow all my tediousness on the public . When the first volumes of ...
... hands , from a few casual notes and references , to the size of a formal treatise : I trust it will be found , however , that I have had sufficient dis- cretion not to bestow all my tediousness on the public . When the first volumes of ...
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... hands . One of the conversations in Tristram Shandy , is borrowed completely from the Frenchman . " Now Ambrose Paræus convinced my father , that the true and efficient cause of what had engaged so much the atten- tion of the world ...
... hands . One of the conversations in Tristram Shandy , is borrowed completely from the Frenchman . " Now Ambrose Paræus convinced my father , that the true and efficient cause of what had engaged so much the atten- tion of the world ...
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... hand once off from Bruscambille all the way . " * This is excellently calculated to excite the appetite of literary epicures , but the book in question is not sufficiently entertaining to gratify much expectation . It consists of ...
... hand once off from Bruscambille all the way . " * This is excellently calculated to excite the appetite of literary epicures , but the book in question is not sufficiently entertaining to gratify much expectation . It consists of ...
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Page 76 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 94 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace?
Page 171 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 84 - Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these days, to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for, as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing like silly passengers at an antic picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at a judicious piece.
Page 165 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that .wander in that perilous flood.
Page 88 - So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt, so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary business, they cannot address themselves to them, or almost...
Page 47 - He, continued my uncle Toby, looking up, and not regarding my father's interruption, who makes us all, and frames and puts us together in such forms and proportions, and for such ends, as is agreeable to his infinite wisdom.
Page 126 - There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill will: a word, — a look, which at one time would make no impression at another time wounds the heart; and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
Page 90 - When I go musing all alone Thinking of divers things fore-known. When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Page 88 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.