Hudibras: A Poem in Three Cantos, Volume 1Rickaby, 1793 |
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Page xii
... appear greater and more glorious ; for he pulls down whole streets to make room for his palaces and public structures . " There is nothing great or magnificent in all the country , that I have feen , but the build- ings and furniture of ...
... appear greater and more glorious ; for he pulls down whole streets to make room for his palaces and public structures . " There is nothing great or magnificent in all the country , that I have feen , but the build- ings and furniture of ...
Page xvii
... appears to be a collection of legal cases and principles , regularly related from Lord Coke's Commentary on Littleton's Tenures : the language is Norman , or law French , and , in general , an abridgment of the above - mentioned ...
... appears to be a collection of legal cases and principles , regularly related from Lord Coke's Commentary on Littleton's Tenures : the language is Norman , or law French , and , in general , an abridgment of the above - mentioned ...
Page xviii
... appear that he ever wrote for the stage , though I have , in his MS . common - place book , part of an unfinished tragedy , entitled Nero . Concerning Hudibras there is but one fentiment - it is univerfally allowed to be the first and ...
... appear that he ever wrote for the stage , though I have , in his MS . common - place book , part of an unfinished tragedy , entitled Nero . Concerning Hudibras there is but one fentiment - it is univerfally allowed to be the first and ...
Page xxii
... appears from a portrait of him , with a fig in his hand , under which is written the following diftich : Dextra cur ficum quæris mea geftat inanem , Longi operis merces hæc fuit , Aula dedit . The next fuccefsful imitators of the mock ...
... appears from a portrait of him , with a fig in his hand , under which is written the following diftich : Dextra cur ficum quæris mea geftat inanem , Longi operis merces hæc fuit , Aula dedit . The next fuccefsful imitators of the mock ...
Page xxiv
... appearing as if composed of many stocks , are of a great circumference . There is a certain folemnity accompanying these trees , nor do I remember that I was ever under the cover of any of them , but that my mind was at the time ...
... appearing as if composed of many stocks , are of a great circumference . There is a certain folemnity accompanying these trees , nor do I remember that I was ever under the cover of any of them , but that my mind was at the time ...
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