1730-1784Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 - American literature |
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... called the riches of their father , and many of them have with true filial piety fed their parent in his old . age ; so that not only the affection but the interest of the author may be highly injured by those slanderers whose poison ...
... called the riches of their father , and many of them have with true filial piety fed their parent in his old . age ; so that not only the affection but the interest of the author may be highly injured by those slanderers whose poison ...
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... called Samuel Sewall " A Puritan Pepys , " and the description is by no means so fanciful as might be supposed . From the fact that they were in a measure con- temporary , a comparison of the two dia- rists is obvious , but the first ...
... called Samuel Sewall " A Puritan Pepys , " and the description is by no means so fanciful as might be supposed . From the fact that they were in a measure con- temporary , a comparison of the two dia- rists is obvious , but the first ...
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... called an " Illiterate Fellow , " by some of the Beau- Monde of the last Age . . I hap- pened to come into this Person's Study once , and I found him busy translating a Description of the Course of the River Boristhenes , out of Bleau's ...
... called an " Illiterate Fellow , " by some of the Beau- Monde of the last Age . . I hap- pened to come into this Person's Study once , and I found him busy translating a Description of the Course of the River Boristhenes , out of Bleau's ...
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... called swearing he could see " neither pleasure nor profit . ' He loved a good tale and a merry jest ; but " low - prised wit , " indulged in at the expense of decency and morals , his soul abhorred . His talk , when he was excited ...
... called swearing he could see " neither pleasure nor profit . ' He loved a good tale and a merry jest ; but " low - prised wit , " indulged in at the expense of decency and morals , his soul abhorred . His talk , when he was excited ...
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... called an " Essay on Projects , " and another of Dr. Mather's , called " Essays to do Good , " which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.- FRANKLIN , BENJAMIN , 1771 ...
... called an " Essay on Projects , " and another of Dr. Mather's , called " Essays to do Good , " which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.- FRANKLIN , BENJAMIN , 1771 ...
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Page 127 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 547 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Page 8 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 328 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Page 127 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 5 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Page 53 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with...
Page 200 - He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 164 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 217 - He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, And sets the passions on the side of Truth, Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest Art, And pours each human virtue in the heart.