The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Volume 5Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1802 - English literature |
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... Such rage in Jacobins prevails ! They roll'd him down the hill . ANOTHER ODE , Addreffed to the Right Hon . H. Ad [ From the Morning Chronicle , April . ] , Ultima Cumæi venit jam carminis ætas ; Magnus ab integro . fcelerum nafcitur ...
... Such rage in Jacobins prevails ! They roll'd him down the hill . ANOTHER ODE , Addreffed to the Right Hon . H. Ad [ From the Morning Chronicle , April . ] , Ultima Cumæi venit jam carminis ætas ; Magnus ab integro . fcelerum nafcitur ...
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... Such a revolution in genius might end in petticoat go- vernment . The bishops took fire : they forefaw piety in pattens . The lawyers trembled left they fhould be out - talked , and the feat of juftice occupied by old women ! But in ...
... Such a revolution in genius might end in petticoat go- vernment . The bishops took fire : they forefaw piety in pattens . The lawyers trembled left they fhould be out - talked , and the feat of juftice occupied by old women ! But in ...
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... Such is the wit which fets the boxes of a coffee - house in a roar ; fuch is that which every fmart talker , in places of public refort , filches from the morning papers , to fupply his expenditure of wit till evening , and from the ...
... Such is the wit which fets the boxes of a coffee - house in a roar ; fuch is that which every fmart talker , in places of public refort , filches from the morning papers , to fupply his expenditure of wit till evening , and from the ...
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... Such is the feeling of the Roman poet when he follows the eaglet from his early attempts on lamb and mutton , to the exploits of his full ftrength againft lions and dragons . It is the fame craving of the gizzard which animates him ...
... Such is the feeling of the Roman poet when he follows the eaglet from his early attempts on lamb and mutton , to the exploits of his full ftrength againft lions and dragons . It is the fame craving of the gizzard which animates him ...
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... such heroes * , the boast of our isle ! Let enfigns , like midshipmen , learn well their art , Some years ftudy tactics , they'll fill well their part . Let merit , not money , the land fervice rule , No commiffions be fold to raw boys ...
... such heroes * , the boast of our isle ! Let enfigns , like midshipmen , learn well their art , Some years ftudy tactics , they'll fill well their part . Let merit , not money , the land fervice rule , No commiffions be fold to raw boys ...
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Page 103 - ... the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will ; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? what are houses ? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last.
Page 33 - And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 345 - So tie my hands as fast behind, as can be ; " Or nature may assert her reign, My arms assist, my will restrain, And swimming, I once more regain my troubles." With eager haste the dame complies, While joy stands glistening in her eyes : Already, in her thoughts, he dies before her. "Yet, when I view the rolling tide, Nature revolts," he said ; " beside, I would not be a suicide, and die thus.
Page 289 - I may hear myfelf, and fo we may all hear one another; and truly there is great reafon for it ; for by hearing we convey our reafon one to another. Now that I have reafon, I will prove, for every man is a rational creature : now I am a. man, therefore I am a reafonable creature. Gentlemen, this makes as much for you as for me, for by this do I prove you likewife' to be rational creatures, and fo fit to be fherifts.
Page 263 - Some of them took his advice; and his wealth grew with his reputation. The abbe Pons extolled this quack, and gave him the preference to the Marischal de Villars : " the latter," said he, " kills men ; the former prolongs their existence.
Page 262 - In 1728, one Villars told his friends in confidence, that his uncle, who had lived almost an hundred years, and who died only by accident, had left him a certain preparation, which had the virtue to prolong a man's life to an hundred and fifty years, if he lived with sobriety. When he happened to observe the procession of a funeral, he shrugged up his shoulders in pity: if the deceased, said he.
Page 193 - Now sing ye the death-song, and loudly pray For the soul of my Knight so dear ; And call me a widow this wretched day, Since the warning of God is here ! For...
Page 289 - At firft you played with thefe edged tools in your military and artillery grounds, and made (port with them before your wives ; but I think they have made fport with you fince. Truly, for my part, I cannot tell what to do for thefe edged tools; and I believe you are in a quandary too: for my part, I refolve never to meddle with them; and I hope God has given you fo much grace and cowardice, as to do fo too. King James would never meddle with them, you know: now, if you 407 will not take my foolifli...
Page 345 - No more let feuds our peace divide, I'll end them. " Weary of life, and quite resigned, To drown I have made up my mind, So tie my hands as fast behind . ' . . As can be : " Or Nature may assert her reign, My arms assist, my will restrain, And swimming, I once more regain My troubles." With eager haste the dame complies, While joy stands...
Page 248 - ... his companionable qualities. You will be surprised to hear, that, by a fortunate connection, he is become dean of . The first time I saw him after his preferment, I stretched out my hand to him, to wish him joy, in quality of an old friend and associate, but could only grasp the tip of his longest finger : he made me, however, a very polite bow, and told me his dinner was always on table at half after five, if I ever came his way. He left me in such utter surprise, that I was fixed on the spot...