The British Essayists;: ConnoisseurJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... scarce and sold at a considerable price . In 1752 , he began a periodical work , entitled " Have at ye all , or the Drury Lane Journal , " in opposition to FIELDING'S " Covent - garden Journal . " It con- tains some humorous remarks on ...
... scarce and sold at a considerable price . In 1752 , he began a periodical work , entitled " Have at ye all , or the Drury Lane Journal , " in opposition to FIELDING'S " Covent - garden Journal . " It con- tains some humorous remarks on ...
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... Scarce any popular topic offered of whatever kind , which did not afford him a sub- ject for a pamphlet , an essay , a piece of poetry , or some whimsical paragraphs for the news - papers . His contributions to the Public Advertiser ...
... Scarce any popular topic offered of whatever kind , which did not afford him a sub- ject for a pamphlet , an essay , a piece of poetry , or some whimsical paragraphs for the news - papers . His contributions to the Public Advertiser ...
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... scarce known again ; a sprightly young fellow , with whom I have spent many a jolly hour ; but being just dubbed a graduate in physic , he has gained such an entire conquest over the risible muscles , that he hardly vouchsafes at any ...
... scarce known again ; a sprightly young fellow , with whom I have spent many a jolly hour ; but being just dubbed a graduate in physic , he has gained such an entire conquest over the risible muscles , that he hardly vouchsafes at any ...
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... scarce left any thing behind them but Holy Families , Dead Christs , and Madonas ; subjects , which to me and my tribe are odious and abominable . A picture , since it has the property of being the language of all man- kind , should ...
... scarce left any thing behind them but Holy Families , Dead Christs , and Madonas ; subjects , which to me and my tribe are odious and abominable . A picture , since it has the property of being the language of all man- kind , should ...
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... scarce able to live nine " days : but you see that light Italian gondola . + Gli " Amanti Gelosi , skims along pleasantly before the " wind , and out - strips the painted frigates of our country , ‡ Didone and Artaserse . Observe that ...
... scarce able to live nine " days : but you see that light Italian gondola . + Gli " Amanti Gelosi , skims along pleasantly before the " wind , and out - strips the painted frigates of our country , ‡ Didone and Artaserse . Observe that ...
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11 ページ - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; — and what's his reason? I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
107 ページ - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of...
53 ページ - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
53 ページ - ... colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant; yet in the...
5 ページ - This coflee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance at the theatres, weighed and determined.
48 ページ - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter ; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.
4 ページ - They aim at the air and mien of the drawing-room ; but the holiday smartness of a 'prentice, heightened with some additional touches of the rake or coxcomb, betrays itself in every thing they do. The Temple, however, is stocked with its peculiar beaux, wits, poets, critics, and every character in the gay world; and it is a thousand pities that so pretty a society should be disgraced with a few dull fellows, who can submit to puzzle themselves with cases and reports, and have not taste enough to follow...
48 ページ - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.
81 ページ - And he for it would pay Whatsoever he would demand of him, And pledges he should have. ' No,' (quoth the Jew with Hearing lookes) ' Sir, aske what you will have.
3 ページ - ... the booksellers. The conversation here naturally turns upon the newest publications ; but their criticisms are somewhat singular. When they say a good book, they do not mean to praise the style or sentiment, but the quick and extensive sale of it. That book is best which sells most; and if the demand for Quarles should be greater than for Pope, he would have the highest place on the rubric-post.