The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, 第 4 巻

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Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott
James Ridgway, 1801
 

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307 ページ - This is the life which thofe who fret in guilt And guilty cities never knew ; the life Led by primeval ages, uncorrupt, When Angels dwelt, and God himfelf, with man
50 ページ - came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, •*- The clew on his thin robe was heavy and chill ; For his country he
255 ページ - trac'd with the pen of a Varro ; And Elvira in black and Alonzo in white Put an end to the piece, by killing Pizarro. I have finifli'd my fong ; if it had but a tune (Nancy
50 ページ - my brothers embrace me ! They died to defend me, or live to deplore. Where is my cabin door,
142 ページ - contentions, hath as often been owing to conduct as to courage or ftrength. I remember a famous prize-eater, who had by many laxative dofes reduced his body to fuch a habit, that his belly was little more than a vehicle to convey his meat downwards; by which means he had overcome all the celebrated
51 ページ - did ye weep for its fall ? Where is the mother that look'd on my childhood ? And where is the
50 ページ - the friends who can meet me no more. Oh, cruel fate! wilt thou never replace me In a
142 ページ - trained-bands, was formerly known in this city by the name of the Scourge of Ordinaries. This brave officer had, with great conduct and courage, entirely routed all the ordinaries from Charing Crofs to the Exchange. He is imagined to have died by the wound of a
256 ページ - the faces They made, and the ridiculous grimaces, At many an author as they overhaul'd him. They gave no quarter to a calf, Blown up with puff and paragraph; But if they found him bad, they maul'd him. On modern
143 ページ - never regards whom he is to dine with, but what he is to dine upon ; he would at any time quit the better company for the better dinner; and if he purchafes any rarity at his own

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