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... night . " Such is the account of the Nile and its inundations , which it is hoped will not be deemed an improper or tedious digression , especially as the whole is an extract from Johnson's translation . He is all the time the actor in ...
... night . " Such is the account of the Nile and its inundations , which it is hoped will not be deemed an improper or tedious digression , especially as the whole is an extract from Johnson's translation . He is all the time the actor in ...
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... nights . Since that time it has not been exhibited on any stage . Irene may be added to some other plays in our language ... night behind the scenes . Conceiving that his character as an author required some ornament for his person , he ...
... nights . Since that time it has not been exhibited on any stage . Irene may be added to some other plays in our language ... night behind the scenes . Conceiving that his character as an author required some ornament for his person , he ...
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... night , and dread the coming day . Exhausted , tir'd , I throw my eyes around , To find some vacant spot on classic ground ; And soon , vain hope ! I form a grand design ; Languor succeeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open ...
... night , and dread the coming day . Exhausted , tir'd , I throw my eyes around , To find some vacant spot on classic ground ; And soon , vain hope ! I form a grand design ; Languor succeeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open ...
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... night , While passions , error , phantoms of the brain , And vain opinions , fill the dark domain ; A dreary void , where fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To ...
... night , While passions , error , phantoms of the brain , And vain opinions , fill the dark domain ; A dreary void , where fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To ...
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... night " and twelve on Thursday night . " This celerity has appeared wonderful to many , and some have doubted the truth . It may , however , be placed within the bounds of probability . Johnson has observed that there are different ...
... night " and twelve on Thursday night . " This celerity has appeared wonderful to many , and some have doubted the truth . It may , however , be placed within the bounds of probability . Johnson has observed that there are different ...
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Page 44 - Johnson : one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 190 - Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 139 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Page 76 - ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 187 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Page 182 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait ; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost ; He comes...
Page 183 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord.
Page 175 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 187 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 55 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...