The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, 2 tomas1754 |
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... laft Peace into France . As foon as he landed at Calais , he fent me an exact Account of the Nature of the People , and the Policies of the King of France . I got him fince chofen a Member of a Corporation : The modest Crea- ture , as ...
... laft Peace into France . As foon as he landed at Calais , he fent me an exact Account of the Nature of the People , and the Policies of the King of France . I got him fince chofen a Member of a Corporation : The modest Crea- ture , as ...
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... laft Night your fecond A & t you were fo kind to lend me ; but I find you depend mightily upon the Re- tinue of your Hero to make him magnificent . You make Guards , and Ufhers , and Courtiers , and Com- mons , and Nobles , march before ...
... laft Night your fecond A & t you were fo kind to lend me ; but I find you depend mightily upon the Re- tinue of your Hero to make him magnificent . You make Guards , and Ufhers , and Courtiers , and Com- mons , and Nobles , march before ...
23 psl.
... laft Month they swore eternal Fidelity to each other , and to love till Death . Ever fince that Time , Lifander has been twice a Day at the Chocolate- houfe , vifits in every Circle , is miffing four Hours in four and twenty , and will ...
... laft Month they swore eternal Fidelity to each other , and to love till Death . Ever fince that Time , Lifander has been twice a Day at the Chocolate- houfe , vifits in every Circle , is miffing four Hours in four and twenty , and will ...
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... laft received his Sight at the Age of twenty Years , by the Operation of an Oculift . This happened no farther off than Newing- ton , and the Work was prepared for in the following Manner . THE Operator , Mr. Grant , having observed the ...
... laft received his Sight at the Age of twenty Years , by the Operation of an Oculift . This happened no farther off than Newing- ton , and the Work was prepared for in the following Manner . THE Operator , Mr. Grant , having observed the ...
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... laft Letters from the Duke of Marlborough's Camp at Orchies of the 19th Inftant advife , That Monfieur Revignan being returned from the French Court with an Account , That the King of France refufed to ratify the Capitulation for the ...
... laft Letters from the Duke of Marlborough's Camp at Orchies of the 19th Inftant advife , That Monfieur Revignan being returned from the French Court with an Account , That the King of France refufed to ratify the Capitulation for the ...
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286 psl. - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
241 psl. - ... he saw two women of a larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...
295 psl. - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
302 psl. - It happened, that the very next who was brought before me was one of her admirers, who was indicted upon that very head. A letter which he acknowledged to be his own hand was read, in which were the following words, " Cruel creature, I die for you.
245 psl. - ... first. Our passions and inclinations come over next ; and our reason surrenders itself with pleasure in the end. Thus the whole soul is insensibly, betrayed into morality, by bribing the fancy with beautiful and agreeable images of those...
82 psl. - ... many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
318 psl. - ... and keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of disturbing her in her last moments ; and the wife even at that time concealing; the pains she endured, for fear of increasing his affliction.
164 psl. - I must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight of these ghastly appearances : but on a sudden, the voice of the trumpet came more full upon us, so that we felt a new resolution reviving in us ; and in proportion as this resolution grew, the terrors before us seemed to vanish. Most of the company, who had swords in their hands, marched on with great spirit, and an air of defiance, up the road that was commanded by Death ; while others, who had thought and contemplation in their looks, went...
286 psl. - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
231 psl. - Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them.