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... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
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... admirably used , for purposes of banter , by wits who are guilty of the very fault when they become grave . Thus Peter Pindar , who is as dull in his serious poetry as he is laughable in his comic : — Once at our house , amidst our ...
... admirably used , for purposes of banter , by wits who are guilty of the very fault when they become grave . Thus Peter Pindar , who is as dull in his serious poetry as he is laughable in his comic : — Once at our house , amidst our ...
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... Admirable things have the wits and even the gravest reformers ( the wits themselves are sometimes the gravest ) got out of this prince of buffoons , whom the older I grow ( always excepting the detestable coarseness taught him by the ...
... Admirable things have the wits and even the gravest reformers ( the wits themselves are sometimes the gravest ) got out of this prince of buffoons , whom the older I grow ( always excepting the detestable coarseness taught him by the ...
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... admirably on the subject of Bardolph's nose : — If thou wert any way given to virtue , I would swear by thy face . My oath should be , " By this fire . " But thou art altogether given over ; and wert indeed , but for the light in thy ...
... admirably on the subject of Bardolph's nose : — If thou wert any way given to virtue , I would swear by thy face . My oath should be , " By this fire . " But thou art altogether given over ; and wert indeed , but for the light in thy ...
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... admirable , but in general not so happy as Butler's . He forces them too much for their own sakes . Butler brings them out of the words before him , as they naturally present themselves in the flow of compo- sition . He is resolved that ...
... admirable , but in general not so happy as Butler's . He forces them too much for their own sakes . Butler brings them out of the words before him , as they naturally present themselves in the flow of compo- sition . He is resolved that ...
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Page 151 - A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it.
Page 339 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks...
Page 248 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 137 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Page 283 - Planets through the boundless Sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the Moon's pale Light Pursue the Stars that shoot athwart the Night ; Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below, Or dip their Pinions in the painted Bow, Or brew fierce Tempests on the wintry Main, Or o'er the Glebe distil the kindly Rain.
Page 80 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Page 286 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 5 - 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...
Page 341 - He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser : Too courteous, perhaps, or obligingly flat?
Page 299 - Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn, And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn. My lord advances with majestic mien, Smit with the mighty pleasure to be seen : But soft — by regular approach — not yet — First...