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... common in London from 1790 on- wards . One such version ( B.M. 11621 . k . 5. 427 ) begins " I am a poor unhappy Man , " and runs to 8 stanzas . Of the last piece - by Burns - only the first 8 lines are printed ! 1801. [ Defoe ( Daniel ) ...
... common in London from 1790 on- wards . One such version ( B.M. 11621 . k . 5. 427 ) begins " I am a poor unhappy Man , " and runs to 8 stanzas . Of the last piece - by Burns - only the first 8 lines are printed ! 1801. [ Defoe ( Daniel ) ...
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... common use before the end of the eighteenth century . I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is right in attributing the name " Bombay duck to sailors , to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature . 66 66 ...
... common use before the end of the eighteenth century . I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is right in attributing the name " Bombay duck to sailors , to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature . 66 66 ...
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... common by the time Swift wrote his Polite Conversation . ' He was engaged on this work in 1731 , though it was not printed till some years later ( Sir Henry Craik's Life , ' chap . xvii . p . 474 , ed . 1882 ) . EDWARD BENSLY ...
... common by the time Swift wrote his Polite Conversation . ' He was engaged on this work in 1731 , though it was not printed till some years later ( Sir Henry Craik's Life , ' chap . xvii . p . 474 , ed . 1882 ) . EDWARD BENSLY ...
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... common stock , but others interest- valuable notes on The City Press and other ing for their personal turn or the insight they journals , will be familiar to readers of these afford into contemporary manners . The anec- columns . In ...
... common stock , but others interest- valuable notes on The City Press and other ing for their personal turn or the insight they journals , will be familiar to readers of these afford into contemporary manners . The anec- columns . In ...
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... common with his other work . Absence of plot and deficiency in character - sketching are not noticeable . Throughout Peacock has infused interest into the development of events . Of these the principal - around which everything revolves ...
... common with his other work . Absence of plot and deficiency in character - sketching are not noticeable . Throughout Peacock has infused interest into the development of events . Of these the principal - around which everything revolves ...
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Página 105 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 89 - Ay me! I fondly dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Página 156 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Página 2 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
Página 180 - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.
Página 105 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 257 - At eve last Midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hempseed brought; I...
Página 444 - Otis's pamphlet I never saw, and whether I had gathered my ideas from reading or reflection, I do not know. I know only that I turned to neither book nor pamphlet while writing it. I did not consider it as any part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether, and to offer no sentiment which had ever...
Página 413 - There were eight or ten more lines, but Peter destroyed them in his wrath. In the region of wild burlesque, where the ridiculous, by its intensity and mass, becomes the sublime, I never met any one to approach " Peter," except our amazing Medea-Robson.
Página 220 - Now I lay me down to sleep ; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.