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... mean that he must have been very much above the ordinary level of joiners and carpenters.1 We are told further , that he was 66 a very honest man , descended of a family of middling note , in the county of Surrey , but which having for ...
... mean that he must have been very much above the ordinary level of joiners and carpenters.1 We are told further , that he was 66 a very honest man , descended of a family of middling note , in the county of Surrey , but which having for ...
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... means . Already he had begun , after the fashion of the prosperous citizens of his day , to indulge himself with a country residence , to which , like the tradesman in No. xxxiii . of the Connois- seur , he retired from Saturday to ...
... means . Already he had begun , after the fashion of the prosperous citizens of his day , to indulge himself with a country residence , to which , like the tradesman in No. xxxiii . of the Connois- seur , he retired from Saturday to ...
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... Mean time one Side goes on , accusing without Mercy ; the other , acquitting without Shame . " Tis the Business of one Set of Papers to bespatter and throw Dirt ; and of the other to follow after them , with a Scrubbing- brush and a ...
... Mean time one Side goes on , accusing without Mercy ; the other , acquitting without Shame . " Tis the Business of one Set of Papers to bespatter and throw Dirt ; and of the other to follow after them , with a Scrubbing- brush and a ...
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... means , who is a Favourite of a certain great Man , to be a Bishop . " Towards the end of the book are eleven letters from " a young Lady in Town to her Aunt in the Country , " describing the sights of London and Westminster . These ...
... means , who is a Favourite of a certain great Man , to be a Bishop . " Towards the end of the book are eleven letters from " a young Lady in Town to her Aunt in the Country , " describing the sights of London and Westminster . These ...
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... mean testimony to the fertility of his imagination and the promptitude of his pen.1 Which of the epistles to young women first set him on his task , is not now discernible . The Familiar Letters of 1741 contain at least three which bear ...
... mean testimony to the fertility of his imagination and the promptitude of his pen.1 Which of the epistles to young women first set him on his task , is not now discernible . The Familiar Letters of 1741 contain at least three which bear ...
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Page 5 - Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and bolh mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.
Page 118 - ... by mistinesses from the head : by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies...
Page 29 - ... by all manner of temptations and devices, to seduce her. That she had recourse to as many innocent stratagems to escape the snares laid for her virtue; once, however, in despair, having been near drowning; that, at last, her noble resistance, watchfulness, and excellent qualities, subdued him, and he thought fit to make her his wife.
Page 118 - ... hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or...
Page 155 - ... a woman. Thus it continued eight months, in which time my friends found as much love in Klopstock's letters as in me. I perceived it likewise, but I would not believe it. At the last Klopstock said plainly that he loved; and I startled as for a wrong thing. I answered, that it was no love, but friendship, as it was what I felt for him ; we had not seen one another enough to love (as if love must have more time than friendship!). This was sincerely my meaning, and I had this meaning till Klopstock...
Page 183 - AW WARD. COLERIDGE. By HD TRAILL. COWPER. By GOLDWIN SMITH. DEFOE. By W. MINTO. DE QUINCEY. By Prof. MASSON. DICKENS. By Sir AW WARD.
Page 90 - Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.
Page 73 - ... place, afraid of being seen as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk, (which he always does with precipitation), unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in the way...
Page 107 - I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is a writer, should descend so excessively low, in all his pieces. Who can care for any of his people? A person of honour asked me, the other day, what he could mean, by saying, in his Covent Garden Journal,...
Page 100 - What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to your's. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while your's was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside.