The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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Page 54
... leave a sure space on continuate earth , And force a gate in jumps from tower to tower , As they do that aspire from height to height . The bounds of loyalty are made of glass , Soon broke , but can in no date be repair'd ; And as the ...
... leave a sure space on continuate earth , And force a gate in jumps from tower to tower , As they do that aspire from height to height . The bounds of loyalty are made of glass , Soon broke , but can in no date be repair'd ; And as the ...
Page 56
... leave to be Lafin , A poor and expuate humour of the court : your friend . But what good blood came out with me ; what veins And sinews of the triumphs now it makes , I list not vaunt ; yet will I now confess , And dare assume it , I ...
... leave to be Lafin , A poor and expuate humour of the court : your friend . But what good blood came out with me ; what veins And sinews of the triumphs now it makes , I list not vaunt ; yet will I now confess , And dare assume it , I ...
Page 73
... leave the rest of the fraternity at their devotions . Benedict ordered him to be brought to Monte Casino , and when the monk , as usual , became heartily tired of prayer and prepared to go out of the oratory , the saint saw a little ...
... leave the rest of the fraternity at their devotions . Benedict ordered him to be brought to Monte Casino , and when the monk , as usual , became heartily tired of prayer and prepared to go out of the oratory , the saint saw a little ...
Page 84
... leaving out of view the considerations com- mon to the species , exclusively address themselves to par- ticular classes of readers . In this way of writing , what is lost by the limitation of the subject is abundantly com- pensated by ...
... leaving out of view the considerations com- mon to the species , exclusively address themselves to par- ticular classes of readers . In this way of writing , what is lost by the limitation of the subject is abundantly com- pensated by ...
Page 85
... leaving the character to develop itself by de- grees , has expressly stated it in the soliloquy with which the play opens : — " I , that am curtail'd of this fair proportion , Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature , Deform'd ...
... leaving the character to develop itself by de- grees , has expressly stated it in the soliloquy with which the play opens : — " I , that am curtail'd of this fair proportion , Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature , Deform'd ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole