The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volumen1J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 |
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... Some Couch and diftant Room must be my Choice , Where I may fleep uncurs'd with Wife and Noife . Long this uncomfortable Life they led , With fnarling Meals , and each a fep'rate Bed . To an old Uncle oft she would complain , Beg his ...
... Some Couch and diftant Room must be my Choice , Where I may fleep uncurs'd with Wife and Noife . Long this uncomfortable Life they led , With fnarling Meals , and each a fep'rate Bed . To an old Uncle oft she would complain , Beg his ...
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... some new Poem , or other Entertainment , among the Men of Wit and Pleafure , where there is a Dearth at present . But it is wonderful there fhould be fo few Writers , when the Art is be- come meerly Mechanick , and Men may make ...
... some new Poem , or other Entertainment , among the Men of Wit and Pleafure , where there is a Dearth at present . But it is wonderful there fhould be fo few Writers , when the Art is be- come meerly Mechanick , and Men may make ...
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... Some kind Planet from Above , May , perhaps , her Paffion move : Lovers on their Stars must wait . But the Stars I am fo intimately acquainted with , that I can affure him he will never have her : For would you believe it , tho ...
... Some kind Planet from Above , May , perhaps , her Paffion move : Lovers on their Stars must wait . But the Stars I am fo intimately acquainted with , that I can affure him he will never have her : For would you believe it , tho ...
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C Thus when the Ruler of the Genial Day , • Behind some darkning Planet forms his Way , Defponding Mortals , with officious Care , " • The Concave Drum , and Magick Brass prepare ; Implore him to fuftain th'important Fight , • And fave ...
C Thus when the Ruler of the Genial Day , • Behind some darkning Planet forms his Way , Defponding Mortals , with officious Care , " • The Concave Drum , and Magick Brass prepare ; Implore him to fuftain th'important Fight , • And fave ...
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... Some Time ago by your learned Predictions : Since Partridge , of Immortal Memory , is dead and gone , who , Poetical as he was , could not understand his own Poetry ; and Philomathical as he was , could not read his own Destiny : Since ...
... Some Time ago by your learned Predictions : Since Partridge , of Immortal Memory , is dead and gone , who , Poetical as he was , could not understand his own Poetry ; and Philomathical as he was , could not read his own Destiny : Since ...
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Página 294 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 295 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 357 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 251 - do you think my uncle takes any notice of such a dull rogue as you are?" Mr. William .goes on, " He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book : when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings. His way of thinking is...
Página 289 - To my knowledge of this very hat it may be added, that the covering of straw was never used among the Jews, since it was demanded of them to make bricks without it. Therefore this is really nothing but, under the specious pretence of learning and antiquities, to impose upon the world.
Página 269 - His friend advances, and so on, until they had all saluted her. By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows, at a loss what to do, without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics, at several peep-holes...
Página 371 - ... to benevolence, and tend to a certain manner of being or appearing equal to the rest of the company ; for conversation is composed of an assembly of men, as they are men, and not as they are distinguished by fortune: therefore he who brings his quality with him into conversation, should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage, and not to meet his friends.
Página 250 - I took three lads, who are under my guardianship, a-rambling, in a hackney-coach, to show them the town; as the lions, the tombs, Bedlam, and the other places which are entertainments to raw minds because they strike forcibly on the fancy.
Página 8 - I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead, and if he has any shame, I don't doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance : for though the legs and arms, and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions ; yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.
Página 159 - There is another sort of gentlemen whom I am much more concerned for, and that is the ingenious fraternity of which I have the honour to be an unworthy member; I mean the news-writers of Great Britain, whether 'Postmen