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... never rallied from an operation for its removal . His portrait - the chief characteristic of which is so happily hit off by MR . PINKERTON- is , as I have been informed by contemporaries , an admirable likeness . I believe that the ...
... never rallied from an operation for its removal . His portrait - the chief characteristic of which is so happily hit off by MR . PINKERTON- is , as I have been informed by contemporaries , an admirable likeness . I believe that the ...
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... never found wonders how he missed . " * This is near the mark , but perhaps this is nearer : - " Wit , " says Corbyn Morris , " is the lustre resulting from the quick Life of Cowley . Essays on Wit , Humour , and Raillery , 8vo , 1744 ...
... never found wonders how he missed . " * This is near the mark , but perhaps this is nearer : - " Wit , " says Corbyn Morris , " is the lustre resulting from the quick Life of Cowley . Essays on Wit , Humour , and Raillery , 8vo , 1744 ...
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... never able to walk more than half a mile on foot , or ride a mile or two on a pony , on which I am literally lifted , while my forester walks by his head , for fear a sudden start should unship me altogether . I am tied by a strict regi ...
... never able to walk more than half a mile on foot , or ride a mile or two on a pony , on which I am literally lifted , while my forester walks by his head , for fear a sudden start should unship me altogether . I am tied by a strict regi ...
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... never seen . [ The Post- humous Works of a late Celebrated Genius Deceased , a kind of Shandiana , including also The Koran , is by Mr. Richard Griffith , of Millecent , co . Kildare . Vide Gent . Mag . vol . lxvii . pt . ii . p . 755 ...
... never seen . [ The Post- humous Works of a late Celebrated Genius Deceased , a kind of Shandiana , including also The Koran , is by Mr. Richard Griffith , of Millecent , co . Kildare . Vide Gent . Mag . vol . lxvii . pt . ii . p . 755 ...
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... never be used of persons . It may well be used of facts , but then it also suffers from the same defect as No. 8. It expresses much more than reliable , though it does not 58 [ 3rd S. V. JAN . 16 , '64 . NOTES AND QUERIES .
... never be used of persons . It may well be used of facts , but then it also suffers from the same defect as No. 8. It expresses much more than reliable , though it does not 58 [ 3rd S. V. JAN . 16 , '64 . NOTES AND QUERIES .
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Página 338 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 389 - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
Página 425 - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Página 30 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página 341 - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 43 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Página 388 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Página 300 - Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
Página 338 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 307 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.