Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 18 |
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... Pope , will be at no ty of introducing his characters , and reftricting lofs to form a complete gloffary for his own ... Pope's advice in his Essay on Criticism , ( v . their speeches , and the armies were ready to en- 335. ) a tract ...
... Pope , will be at no ty of introducing his characters , and reftricting lofs to form a complete gloffary for his own ... Pope's advice in his Essay on Criticism , ( v . their speeches , and the armies were ready to en- 335. ) a tract ...
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... POPE'S Essay on Man , his Ethic Epiftles , and YOUNG's Night Thoughts : in the ad Dr AKENSIDE's Pleasures of the Imagination , and Dr DARWIN's Botanic Garden in the 3d VIRGIL'S Georgics ; GAY'S Rural Sports ; and ARMSTRONG's Art of Pre ...
... POPE'S Essay on Man , his Ethic Epiftles , and YOUNG's Night Thoughts : in the ad Dr AKENSIDE's Pleasures of the Imagination , and Dr DARWIN's Botanic Garden in the 3d VIRGIL'S Georgics ; GAY'S Rural Sports ; and ARMSTRONG's Art of Pre ...
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... POPE on a pane of glass , wit Lord CHESTERFIELD's pencil : Accept a miracle instead of wit ; See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ . 2. On a COMPANY of BAD DANCERS to GOOL MUSIC : a How ill the motion with the mufic fuits ! So ...
... POPE on a pane of glass , wit Lord CHESTERFIELD's pencil : Accept a miracle instead of wit ; See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ . 2. On a COMPANY of BAD DANCERS to GOOL MUSIC : a How ill the motion with the mufic fuits ! So ...
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... pope . Upon this , he affected a great deal of ftate . It however ex- cited the envy of the duke of Bohemia , who had folicited the fame honour for himself , and had been refufed . His jealoufy was further excited by the connection ...
... pope . Upon this , he affected a great deal of ftate . It however ex- cited the envy of the duke of Bohemia , who had folicited the fame honour for himself , and had been refufed . His jealoufy was further excited by the connection ...
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... pope thundered out the most dreadful anathemas against the king , releafed his fubjects from their allegiance ... pope ; accepted the terms offered , and fent an embally to Rome , earnestly intreating the removal of the interdict . The ...
... pope thundered out the most dreadful anathemas against the king , releafed his fubjects from their allegiance ... pope ; accepted the terms offered , and fent an embally to Rome , earnestly intreating the removal of the interdict . The ...
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Page 333 - The writ upon which all proceedings here are grounded is called a quo minus : in which the plaintiff suggests that he is the king's farmer or debtor, and that the defendant hath done him the injury or damage complained of; quo minus sufficient j existit, by which he is the less able to pay the king his debt \ or rent.
Page 48 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 276 - He may reject what bills, may make what treaties, may coin what money, may create what peers, may pardon what offences, he pleases...
Page 339 - Power also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects also that natural bodies are able to produce in one another occurring every moment to our senses, we both these ways get the idea of power.
Page 214 - Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes of that bounty ; and does cloth return, Which not for warmth, but ornament, is worn : For the kind fpring, which but falutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year : Ripe fruits, and...
Page 274 - prerogative' we usually understand that special pre-eminence, which the king hath over and above all other persons, and out of the ordinary course of the common law, in right of his regal dignity. It signifies, in its etymology (from prae and rogo), something that is required or demanded before, or in preference to all others.
Page 224 - Not thinking it is levee-day; And find his honour in a pound, Hemm'd by a triple circle round. Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green, How should I thrust myself between?
Page 121 - ... and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle. His standing on the sharp fins of this fish signified to the Saxons that by worshipping him they should pass through all dangers unhurt : by his girdle flying both ways was...
Page 222 - It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.